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Money can’t buy you… privacy
I now have that audacious publication in my hot little hands: the one with the salaries of all my fellow citizens in it. Yes, dear readers, YT is not above a little salacious snooping. And before I go further, let it be known Ithat I stand corrected: it reveals the...
To spy or not to spy?
This is the time of year when the Icelandic tax office makes public the tax records of every single Icelander in the country.Think I'm joking?I'm not. At this time every year, the taxman has finished going over all the income tax statements filed in the spring, and...
Slimy goodness
The place we stayed for the last three days of our hiking adventure is called Lýsuhóll and is on the southern Snæfellsnes peninsula. One of the things that makes Lýsuhóll particularly unique is that it has an extraordinarily slimy swimming pool. This swimming pool is...
Travelogue – stripped down, but still kinda long
We set off on our little hiking adventure on a Friday. For the first two days we had a base camp in a fairly remote little valley called Hítardalur [right by Hítarhólmur on this map], which has a river running through it and is very lovely. Our hut was very basic,...
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Newsflash: Flickr and YT bury hatchet
The church at Búdir Originally uploaded by Alda Kalda. Remember [if you will] how I said I didn't like Flickr because it took forever to load and such? Well I've changed my mind. I now LOVE Flickr - because it has allowed me to upload a WHOLE BUNCH of my hiking photos...
Haloscan.Eats.Comments.
Everyone! I've noted that Haloscan has eaten a few of my comments lately. Just wanted to let you know I have not deleted them - I love getting your comments.OK; I'm off. Ciao!
Concerted
Went to see Emiliana Torrini tonight. Her big homecoming since she became a 'star' - of sorts, well since she wrote a hit song for Kylie Minogue and got nominated for a Grammy.Now, generally I hate going to concerts a) because you have to stand for hours, b) because...
Technoless
Had a serious case of Techno Blues yesterday. So serious in fact that the laptop had to be carted off to the shop so all those supernice Og Vodafone techie people could operate on it. Which they have - and now everything is hunky dory except for one thing - every...
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In the news: Liv Ullmann is here to scout around for locations to shoot a film she’s directing, based on a novel by Icelandic golden boy Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson. Never heard of him? Well then how about Olaf Olafsson? No? Okay, well, I’ll tell you more about him...
Sauna Zen
Right. I shall now proceed to tell you why my cottage country is THE MOST FABULOUS PLACE [for rest and relaxation] in all of Iceland. It’s because of this: Seen from another angle…: And another…: [No, I do not know that man. No, it is not EPI.] Can you guess what it...
Cottage country
Here in Iceland we have a groovy system: labour unions buy summer cottages that their members can rent for a nominal fee. [That’s pretty much every salaried employee, because if you work for someone, you belong to a union]. It’s a pretty cool deal. I’ve been going to...
