Halló, I am Iceland and this is my Tumblr. I am an island and I want to be your friend. I am also on the Twitter, the Face-book, the Vimeo. (You can also visit me one day, if you are not too busy and important.)
A friendly human called hannahmarymei wrote to me:
Iceland, I am an Australian who is very excited about visiting you in June! I plan to hitchhike and camp all over you :) I wanted to know, are your people excited about the increase in tourism?
Here is my reply: I am always happy to make new friends!
Would you like to write to me, too? You can.
If you only ever see a small bit of me, this is as good a bit as any.
Bless bless,
Iceland.
via random-finds:
Fjallabak
Dear friends from the Inter-net,
I wish you all a very very very very happy New Year.
My New Year’s resolution is to be a better island in 2013.
Bless, bless
Iceland
Photo courtesy of Arnþór Snær.
A friendly human called foreversqueezed wrote to me:
Hi Iceland! You're beautiful. I am going to visit you in January but I want to pack light. Is there a lot of snow on your streets? Will I need boots or can I wear regular shoes? (I hate boots.) Any advice you have would be very nice. Thank you!
Here is my reply: You are wise to pack light for your trip to me. I am very dark this time of the year.
Would you like to write to me, too? You can.
A friendly human called dandy-anniexvx-deactivated20130 wrote to me:
Would you recommend humans not living on your island learn your language?
Here is my reply: Only if they want to. And they are not afraid of words like Þríhnjúkagígar.
Would you like to write to me, too? You can.
A friendly human called cherylkeit wrote to me:
Hello Iceland! I will be going to visit you in March. What would you think is the most fun to do? I would like to drive around you and go into one of your volcanos.
Here is my reply: I would very much like that. My volcanoes are very nice on the inside and the outside.
Would you like to write to me, too? You can.
Hello, dear friends from the Internet,
I just wanted to tell you that my Christmas decorations are up.
Bless bless,
Iceland
via: petaqui:
LJÓSASTEMNING / LIGHT MOOD by HPHson http://flic.kr/p/dw83G1
Hello, this is Iceland
My humans do not believe in Santa Claus of Hollywood fame. My humans have Christmas trolls called the Yule Lads that visit them for Christmas.
The Yule Lads are 13 brothers who are very mischievous and tricky, and some children are very, very scared of them. Maybe that is because their mother eats children. She is a terrible troll and collects misbehaving children in a bag to be boiled for soup.
They also have a very vicious cat who is also known to eat children. But he only eats children who do not dress nice for Christmas.
Tomorrow, and every day after that, until it is Christmas Eve, a Yule Lad will descend from the mountains to lift everyone’s Christmas spirit. They do no longer play tricks on children and usually bring a small gift. But I will tell you more about it later.
Bless, bless
Halló, human who likes to read small letters. This Tumblr on your Inter-net is a part of Iceland Wants to Be Your Friend, which belongs to something very serious and important called Promote Iceland. Maybe you did not know this, but we can assure you that Iceland would also like to be your friend on Facebook, on Twitter, on Vimeo, and on Flickr. Or you could just read a blog about Iceland, learn every single word in Icelandic, get to know good Icelandic bands that are not Sigur Rós, or tell Iceland a really good story in an email. (And if you are a really töff person who thinks this is all much too krúttlegt and embarrassing you can even go and "hang" with Hipster Iceland.) Do you want to know things about Iceland? You just have to ask. You probably don't believe it, but all of this was created by actual people like you, using brains and fancy machines. They are called Takk Takk, and they are honestly so happy and impressed that you are still reading this, even though it is written in small gray letters, that they just want to tell you this.
Halló humans. I am also on your "Twitter".