August 2011
43 posts
Hae!
I have an uncommon questin. Because i can't afford to visit Iceland, i thought maybe Iceland could visit me. Is there any webshop where i can order small Icelandic rocks?
Takk og blessbless
What an odd question and what an odd coincidence that it comes right after I read about an Icelandic rock collection that was sent to Gimli in Manitoba. As you can read in the article a 500kg rock collection was given by Snjólaug María Dagsdóttir and Þorsteinn Þorleifsson to the New Iceland Heritage Museum in Gimli, Manitoba.
Gimli is a Canadian town, with a large number of inhabitants which immigrated to there from Iceland in the late 1800s. The Icelandic descendants will now be able to touch Icelandic rock for the first time.
Regarding building your own rock collection, I don’t know. You could check out Rammagerðin and The Nordic Store. They have some rock jewelry and stuff.
Bless bless
Goðan daginn!
First, I love your blog and the many little details you share about your country. :)
Then I have a question. I'm going to visit Reykjavík for two weeks in late September, and will be spending some time on my own. Do you have any recommendations for where to go? Museums, shops, places, anything?
Thanks in advance! :)
Thank you!
It would help if you mentioned what kind of stuff you like. My recommendation with Reykjavík is usually, not to spend too much time in Reykjavík. The good stuff is outside Reykjavík. However there must be something about Reykjavík. I recently met a guy in his thirties who had never gone further away from Reykjavík, than Hveragerði. Hveragerði is only 20 minutes away…
Must dos in Reykjavík:
Go for a swim. The public swimming pools in Reykjavík are excellent. There is one in every neighborhood and each one is unique. And don’t worry, people don’t do a lot of swimming, it’s all about relaxing in the hotpots. This is also the best place to meet Icelanders.
Check out the nightlife. Go downtown on a Thursday evening and get a quick scan of some of the spots. Then go again on a Friday or Saturday after midnight and find the action.
Walk around town and go to the top of Hallgrímskirkja church. Walking around downtown is always fun in any new city. To get oriented, start by taking the lift to the top of the Hallgrímskirkja church. There you get the best view over Reykjavík. Don’t forget to see the harbor.
Nice museums include the National Museum of Iceland, The Reykjavík Maritime Museum and Árbæjarsafn. There are several more, but I like old stuff.
Hae!
is Ísland rugweed free? is there any allergic plants?
Hæ
From what I can find, Iceland is ragweed free. The three main culprits of plant allergy in Iceland are birch, grass and sorrels such as rumex acetosella.
I would just like to compliment that ICELAND is very Beautiful! ^^ my dream is to go there! hopefully :D I wish you could shot every place of it! weeeeeeeee! :D
Iceland sure is beautiful and constantly changing. Yesterday evening I was driving through the southern lowlands as I’ve done countless times. In my opinion this is usually the most boring part of Iceland. However it was amazingly beautiful in the never ending sunset along with a very low white fog that flowed over all of the farmfields. Farms appeared to float on a white, pinkish, cloud and the heads of sheep and horses stood out of the low lying fog. Wish I’d had a camera.
“There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank.”
—‘A Journey to the Centre of the Earth’, Jules Verne (via nicelandic)
Heading to the Vatnajökull!
I spent my day walking around on top of the Vatnajökull glacier today, so thanks look look for this submission.
“I grew up with all these hippies. Ten of them and one of me. None of them wanted to work and spent all their time talking and dreaming and fooling around. 90% of that hippie stuff is just bullshit but the ideals of that generation were very beautiful and powerful and rebellious. I had to dress and feed myself from the time I was six, which meant I became a very organised person. But there came a point when I was about seven or eight, when I saw the absurdity of living in a commune and I said to them, ‘Why don’t you just DO SOMETHING!?’”
—Björk (via fuckyeah-bjork)
Back from Iceland, holy jeeze it was beautiful.
