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iceland day 8 and a half
Well, I’ve been awake for around 2 days, so I can’t say I’ll be able to remember it much, but here goes. After another excellent dinner at Orange, I headed out on the town once more. Nina, the super-adorable waitress from Orange, invited me to meet her at Cafe Paris, giving me her “new” phone [...]
Read More/CommentMaybe the best restaurant in the world
Orange, on the edge of Reykjavik harbor, is maybe the best restaurant in the world. Okay, the food at Per Se is better, but do they have alcoholic slurpees? No. So I was wondering where to have dinner tonight, knowing that today was my last chance to eat the famous Icelandic lamb. I walked past [...]
Read More/Commentglaciers are the coolest
Walking through a glacial ice cave was probably my number one goal of coming here (number two hasn’t been accomplished, but I have one more Friday night left), so my trip to the Solheimsjokull glacier didn’t disappoint. Words and pictures can’t really describe how majestic and awesome it is to stand on the precipice of [...]
Read More/Commentwhy iceland sucks at football
So, Wednesday night I attended the Island v. Skotland World Cup qualifier match. It. was. awesome. In addition to thousands of kilt-wearing Scotsmen (and approximately 2 skirt-wearing Scotswomen) patrolling the streets of Reykjavik, you had kids wearing Viking helmets in the Icelandic color palette and other displays of national pride. In US and A, wearing [...]
Read More/CommentReykjavik day 7 – lunch
It’s a beautiful day today, 60 degrees and sunny, so today I’ll be walking around randomly some more. My first stop is the Seafood Cellar, a restaurant that comes highly recommended by my flight attendant on Icelandair. There’s a bit of a problem, though: what am I supposed to do with bread, oil and chopped [...]
Read More/Commenticeland night 6 – liquid nitrogen ice cream
So after buying my new shoes and making my bus loop-de-loop, I arrived at Orange Restaurant, and my meal was as good as any I’ve had anywhere but Per Se. I was the only one in the restaurant–for the second night in a row–so I received extra special attention and a very memorable meal. Orange’s [...]
Read More/Commentgeyser so-so
After Gullfoss, the bus pulled up to the Geysir hot springs area, home of the original geyser, Geysir, which was pretty gay, sir. Actually, it was quite good, I just wanted to see how far I could take the joke. Geysir doesn’t erupt very frequently–like every 100 years–but there were many other interesting hot springs, [...]
Read More/CommentThe saga of stefan davidsson
It’s 6:30 pm. Everything closes at “18.” I need some shoes to go glacier walking in–actually, to walk in, period–and I have dinner reservations at 8:30. It’s pouring rain. I take a $25, maybe more, cab ride to Smáralind, the only shopping center still open, and buy the most expensively wretched/wretchedly expensive shoes you can [...]
Read More/Commenticeland day 6: gullfoss
Exploring the countryside has yielded a lot of pictures, so I’m breaking each event into separate posts. The first stop was Gullfoss, Icelandic for “Golden Falls,” which is the largest waterfall in the country. These pictures just can’t do the landscape here justice. Everything is so big and majestic and almost scary. It’s also really [...]
Read More/CommentMini-update, day 5
Here on the tour bus to Gullfoss are two drastically different approaches to dealing with baldness:
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