Archive for September, 2013
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Danish Cat Invades Reykjavik
26 Sep 2013You may have followed the drama the past couple of days surrounding the cat that escaped from a plane at…
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How Windy Is It?
24 Sep 2013The weather in Iceland is famous, mainly because it is unpredictable and quite fierce at times, particularly the wind. Sure…
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That’s A Big Cow
20 Sep 2013It’s the slaughtering season in Iceland, and a bull calf from the North weighed in at 553 kilos when it…
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Road Closed
18 Sep 2013Icelandic weather is crazy, and foreign travelers who don’t know any Icelandic have a bad habit of getting stranded on…
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Beards In Iceland
16 Sep 2013I usually trim my beard down to a goatee in summer, but now that fall weather is finally (I think)…
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Fire In A Bottle
12 Sep 2013I’ve mentioned in a previous post that sometimes it can be useful to just translate news headlines as a way…
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Lucky Numbers
09 Sep 2013Saturday was a special day in Iceland – the date formed the string of numbers 7.9.13, which are considered lucky…
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Bridges Over Elliðaár
05 Sep 2013There are two new pedestrian and bicycle bridges being built over the Elliðaár rivers in Reykjavik. They have a really…
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Most Unusual Church?
02 Sep 2013The web site Huffington Post had an article about the 50 most unusual churches in the world, and Hallgrímskirkja in…