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Get naked!
Did I happen to mention that the tourists have arrived? I did? Oh, what I meant to say was: THE TOURISTS HAVE ARRIVED! They’re everywhere. Windbreaker-clad, backpack-geared, map in hand. [Incidentally, for those of you who don’t know, Iceland gets more tourists per...
Happy Easter!
I love Easter. There's something so eminently civilized about it, such promise in the air. Plus it's infused with springtime and the coming of summer, and as with Christmas you get all these days off but without the accompanying stress. What could be sweeter? The...
Bob tired
As expected, old Bobby Fischer both shocked and entertained the general Icelandic populace with his anti-Semitic, anti-American rants at yesterday’s press conference. I shall not repeat what came out of his mouth because obviously the man’s got a severe personality...
Bob’s yer uncle
Well, ol’ Bob arrived last night. Evidently there was some disruption to his connecting flight from Copenhagen so those good Samaritans at Channel 2 sent a private jet over to pick him up, which just happened to have their news editor on board. When the jet landed at...
Bobbyblog
Well, I was determined not to blog about this, but I cannot resist. This whole Bobby Fischer scenario is just too juicy to pass up. Our new countryman Bobby is due in Iceland tomorrow, now that the Japanese have agreed to release him from the immigration prison or...
Icefood
Kim over at Bacon and eh’s asked about traditional Icelandic food a few days ago, and-I-quote: “I would love if you could perhaps share with us a unique dish to Iceland and maybe provide the recipe? Are your meals much different than ours I wonder?” Now, you may [or...
Bleh!
I’m in a blogfunk today. Maybe it’s because this keeps staring me in the face:… I’ve developed an intense dislike for this rotund little object, which I am told is a “webcam” and which AAH uses to chat to her grandmother on MSN. It looks just a little too devious and...
YT the restaurant critic
And the Lord said: “Let there be ranting about restaurants.” And then He created YT. YOU. HAVE. BEEN. SERVED. Out last night for dinner with some friends. The venue: Enrico’s [on main street Laugavegur]. Relatively upscale. Prices average for upscale Iceland [read:...
YT: The Malfunction
YT is a bushed little beaver this evening after working exceedingly hard today. Finished up two fairly lengthy editing assignments on two separate magazines, which took the whole day and was really intense, then went to a meeting and came home to find that EPI had...
YT the Defender
I had an interesting email exchange with Cassie over at Too Much Wool the other day, in which she mentioned that she’d been getting lots of “flak” for praising Iceland.Flak?For praising Iceland??YT was rather astonished at this little bit of information, since as far...
D’oh!
EPI and I went grocery shopping just before closing today in Bónus and the shelves were EMPTY! [Well OK not entirely empty, but close.] We felt we’d been propelled back to the East Bloc circa 1985 and sort of stood in the middle of the store scratching our respective...
Deep
Indispensable wisdom may be gleaned from the door of the YT fridge:... THE WEATHERAhem. Today the weather continued to be sunny and extremely cold. Motorists travelled the bone-dry street on studded tires, tearing up the asphalt and enveloping the city in a cloud of...
