The artists are from Iceland (Tillbury, Mono Town, Obja Rasta, Júniús Mayvent, Vök, Lay Low, Hymnalaya, Snorri Helgason, Samaris, Myrra Rós), Norway (Jonas Alaska), U.K. (Alt-J, Nick Mulvey), Denmark (Choir of Young Believers, Agnes Obel), France (Jain), Germany (Milky Chance), Sweden (Justin Tebbutt).
Sunday, 4 June 2017
A Euro trip 2017 playlist
The artists are from Iceland (Tillbury, Mono Town, Obja Rasta, Júniús Mayvent, Vök, Lay Low, Hymnalaya, Snorri Helgason, Samaris, Myrra Rós), Norway (Jonas Alaska), U.K. (Alt-J, Nick Mulvey), Denmark (Choir of Young Believers, Agnes Obel), France (Jain), Germany (Milky Chance), Sweden (Justin Tebbutt).
Saturday, 6 May 2017
Tuesday, 2 May 2017
Sketches
During our hike up Mosfell.
Sunday, 30 April 2017
Sterkar Djúpur
Just like last time, the boys purchased lots of candy. Here is our first post vacation review
Batter up - Sterkar Djúpur.
Note the flame imagery on the package. The rules were that each person had to choose three candies and eat them all at once.
Judge 1 - Did not like consistency or flavour. Where was the heat? 2/10
Judge 2 - Disgusting 0.5/10
Judge 3 - Nasty 2/10
Judge 4 - Confusing and salty 3/10
Saturday, 29 April 2017
Hákarl and Friend
Melanie took this picture in the grocery store in Selfoss. Clearly hákarl is something that Icelanders eat enough of that it warrants this amount of stock on hand. Hákarl's neighbour, hamsatólg, is sheep fat.
Blue Lagoon
It didn't take long for us to pack up this morning. We made a few stops heading to the airport. The boys spent the last of their Kroner on candy at the Bonus in Selfoss.
We made a quick stop at the Kerid crater and then we headed to the Blue Lagoon.
Secret Lagoon
Friday, 28 April 2017
Sprint to the Finish
1. Went to Geysir.
2. Went to the wool cooperative at Þingborg. By the way, that funny p thing is called a thorn. So in Icelandic, it is pronounced thingborg. Þingborg was full of the handspun, naturally dyed wool Melanie had been hoping to find.
3. Had lunch at the tomato greenhouse restaurant again in Reykholt.
4. Went on a challenging hike up a hill/mountain outside of Flúðir. In Icelndic,the slanted "d" character is called an eth. You pronounce it like the "th" in the word "the". The hill is called Miðfell and I think it might be a caldera. The hike took us up 160 metres to a perched lake.
5. Melanie and I went to the secret lagoon. Ten minutes from the house - it warrants a separate blog post.
Geysir
The Geysir area is close to the house, about 15 minutes up the road. It is a touristy spot, so we headed out early this morning to beat the tour buses.
There were only a half dozen other people there, so we had lots of time to enjoy the alien landscape.
A Blog Post for Benjamin
Thursday, 27 April 2017
Icelandic Brown Trout Hook Up
This is one of my last casts of the day. I had a large weighted streamer on (green woolly bugger) and had a few hard strikes before the trout took my fly. It weighed in at just over 1kg, which is a good sized trout.