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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