Speeding deadlines

Aug 5, 2005 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Friday again! How did that happen? I guess this is what transpires when you barely look up from the computer screen for days on end… that’s right, after a fairly lax July [in which all of Iceland practically shuts down – well, except if you work in...

Money can’t buy you… privacy

Aug 4, 2005 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

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?

Aug 2, 2005 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

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...

Slimy goodness

Aug 1, 2005 | Travel & Reviews, Uncategorized | 0 comments

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...