I heard in Iceland

22/11/2016

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Here is an incredibly valuable discussion on "Where to buy the best mangos":

28/10/2016

Icelanders don't use handbrakes much, we heard. But this sounded weird. Today, however, the claim was confirmed: we saved a van rolling into water from a flat surface, just because of wind. The moral is: wherever you are, use a handbrake!

12/10/2016

There is a town in North Iceland called Siglufjörður. It is surrounded by mountains from three sides so in winter inhabitants don't see any sun for a month. You can reach the town only through long tunnels.

07/10/2016

"Honey, I just put up our geese to dry!"

26/09/2016

An occasion when you can see Icelanders posting cute pictures of lamb... when they sell their meat! 🐑🍖 😱

06/09/2016

Saturday in Iceland is called laugardagur (bathing day), but every kid here knows that it is also nammidagur (sweets day) - with heavily reduced prices for sweets at supermarkets. Already at midnight to Saturday you will see the sweet bars swarmed by Icelanders of all ages. (The market pictured here even offers cheaper sweets every night, maybe to attract customers in the off hours)

05/09/2016

There's a museum about dicks in Reykjavík.

http://phallus.is/en/

The Icelandic Phallological Museum is probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of ph***ic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found in a single country. Phallology is an ancient science which, until recent years, has received very little attention in Iceland,…

01/09/2016

Storytime: two Germans and an Austrian decided to go on an arctic sailing adventure tour towards Iceland — in addition to the expected challenges of cold and storms, they faced a very unexpected one: a heavily drinking captain! Although he did manage to navigate them safely through difficult conditions, he was very stubborn and disregarded their understandable concerns. Cut off from any communication, the travellers had no choice but to accept their situation. The fact that they had three guns on board (as many arctic boats have) didn’t make them sleep easier.

The first time the arrived at civilised land — in Suðureyri, Iceland — they decided to end their travel there and take the bus to Reykjavík, their final destination, instead. The captain (again, horribly drunk) did not approve and forcefully stopped them from disembarking. Still, the travellers managed to escape and decided to call the Icelandic police.

They expected a couple police officers to come, have a look and resolve the dispute with the captain. But since they mentioned the guns on board, they found the boat — to their utter surprise — surrounded by armed special forces of the Icelandic police, as if “the most dangerous man on the earth's surface” was to be expected inside.

The guns were seized and the captain fined for several offences, while the travellers enjoyed a very warm welcome from the local population, who offered them accommodation, food and support. The end.

(Based on our understanding of this Google-Translated article: http://www.visir.is/aevintyrasigling-til-islands-vard-ad-martrod/article/2016160828971)

"Við lifðum af ísbirni, storm og nístingskulda,“ segir Paul. "Og drykkfelldan, vopnaðan skipstjóra. Eitthvað sem við áttum ekki von á að...

30/08/2016

Many politicians like to claim a closeness to their electorate, but none of their somewhat artificial publicity events will ever be as down-to-earth as the Icelandic president, seen here waiting in line at Domino's, for example...

28/08/2016

Icelandic license plates, continued: