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The curse of the Icelandic lava stone!

June 30, 2010

Bizarre report in Fréttablaðið this morning. Seems a British [ex-] tourist who took a lava stone back home with him a couple of years ago experienced major misfortunes in his private and public life on returning to the UK. He blames the stone, and has now mailed it back to Iceland, asking that it be [...]

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Newsflash: hidden people to be taxed

November 19, 2009

So the guvn’ment has been bizzy bizzy these past couple of days introducing us to all the various new taxes and tax brackets we’ll be subjected to in the near future. It seems they’ve found a way to tax everything, from heavy industry to biscuits, and anything in between. Predictably the media is all-abuzz with [...]

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MY ICELAND: the glamorous opulence of the hidden people

April 19, 2009

Many years ago, I was travelling through south Iceland with two of my cousins [in my cousin's Austin Mini and this was before Ring Road 1 was paved]. We stopped in Vík to set up camp for the night. After pitching our tent at the campsite, we decided to take a stroll along the beach [...]

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The CBC and elves: Was it something I said?

April 3, 2009

So my post from the other day about the CBC’s preoccupation with the Icelanders’ alleged elf fixation garnered a fair bit of attention. There were a lot of referrals, some social media sites picked it up, and predictably most of the attention came from Canada. Seeing as how the tone of the post was, um, [...]

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