February 2012
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January 2012
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glasghost asked: I want to visit you and walk in a lot of directions on you, but I do not know how to start to think about how to do this. Help please?
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WatchMy horses also want to be your friends.
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catamaranslabyrinth asked: This is the cutest tumblr ever. I would quite like to be your friend, but I'm poor.
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Halló @sweden. I am glad you are on the Twitter finally, but why are you pretending to be a human?
— Iceland (@thisisiceland) January 19, 2012
My friend Sweden is on Twitter now. Say halló to it. (It is a good peninsula with good people who are in many Swedish bands that are not Abba.
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I am still here, in the middle of the ocean.
— Iceland (@thisisiceland) January 9, 2012
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December 2011
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A white Christmas in Reykjavík, a long time ago →
This is what one of the streets in my Reykjavík looked like on Christmas more than fifty years ago. You can read more about that here.
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Every Single Word in Icelandic: Pulsa (or pylsa,... →
“Pulsa” is an Icelandic word for a thing that people like very much to stick into their mouths and eat.
“Pylsa” is another Icelandic word for the same thing.
What does Icelandic have two different words that sound almost the same and mean the same thing? Find out by klikking on Every Single Word in Icelandic.
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Tjörnin
One of my places is called “Tjörnin”. Here is a picture of it.
You can read more about it on a blog about Every Single Place in Iceland.
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My people don’t have any gays in their military. But that’s only because they don’t have a military.
— Iceland (@thisisiceland) December 12, 2011
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A Beetle in my snow, 1960s
From the “Iceland Photo Archive” who said “A VW Beetle crawls down a snowy and hard-to-pronounce street in Reykjavík.”
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“The island republic’s capital has more independent book and vinyl record stores...”
– A “Gourmet Traveller” does not understand how my people got to be so töff.
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November 2011
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hannahmcnoface asked: If I am currently in Paris, what is the fastest/cheapest/easiest way to visit Iceland? Is it possible to do in a weekend?
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WatchHalló, this is Iceland.
Kat and Steve are two humans who think I am very rómantic. Many other humans think this, too.
Bless bless, - Iceland
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How to visit me, Iceland, in a flying machine →
Many humans wonder how they can visit me. This is why I made this inter-net.
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Espresso arrives in Reykjavík, 1958
My people like to drink coffee.
From icelandphotoarchive, who said
The first espresso bar opened in Reykjavík on 9 January 1958. From a newspaper that day: “The coffee there is made with an Italian method using steam pressure and is supposed to be very strong and uplifting.”
Photo: Andrés Kolbeinsson
Do you like old photo-graphs taken on me? The Reykjavík Photo Museum owns many. Just klikk...
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WatchHalló, this is Iceland.
This moving picture is from a famous building in my Reykjavík, where humans take busses and make pönk músík. You can read about that in this book.
Bless bless, - Iceland
October 2011
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“Of course you can and do go on into the night after the music has ceased,...”
– A famous man called Luke Slater visited me for the Iceland Air-Waves, and wrote this in a magazine about loud music.
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Icelandic geysers that are not Geysir, part one:...
Here are ten photo-graphs of one of my places. It is called Strokkur, and you can look at it when you visit me in a flying machine.
If you are too busy and important to do this, you can also just read about it on a new inter-net I made for you about my places, called “Every Single Place in Iceland”.
Bless bless, - Iceland
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Every Single Word in Icelandic: Eyja-fjalla-jökull →
This is a famous word that many people have heard with their ears. Some of them have even tried to say it with their mouths, even though they do not understand what it means.
But don’t worry, I will explain it now so this does not happen to you.
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“Since arriving here about 6 days ago I’ve climbed a glacier (and wandered around...”
– The Passenger Side (I do not think this is her real name) who is visiting me to listen to my people’s air-waves thinks that I am “basically mental”. (I am not sure what this means.)
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This is Rán
Remember her? She is the Official Drawing Person of Reykjavík, and last summer she made many good drawings of humans and buildings and mountains and balloons. (I am in the background of some of them.)
And now she has made a good book with them.
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Flickr Group: Every Single Place in Iceland →
Halló. Do you have good photo-graphs of my places on your Flickr? If you add them here, they will show up on this new inter-net about my places. (Púff — just like that.)
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I have many places
Look, it’s Every Single Place in Iceland.
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“It was absolutely amazing. Super fun and wildly chaotic, too – but that may have...”
– A human called Nive from Greenland came and played tónlist at my people’s Iceland Airwaves last year. Maybe you can do this, too.
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WatchHalló humans. Many of you are visiting me in flying machines this week to see Iceland Airwaves Music Festival. The man in this video plays his harmónikka very well, but you will not find him playing in this festival. (He is very busy.)
Bless bless, - Iceland.
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“On October 9th 2011, I will relight Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland in memory of...”
– A woman called Yoko built a tower on one of my islands to help you remember her husband.
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