There’s no denying that the weather has been very strange for several years and this summer is no exception. Iceland is enjoying a heat wave and unusually (relatively) clear skies. In Ontario we’re having the wettest summer on record. Much cooler and very much wetter than last summer. We’ve had so [...]
Another one of those ’studies’ about nations has hit the streets, this time it is the ‘World Values Survey’. This time it is Iceland ranking high on the list of happiest places. Iceland always places high which to this writer isn’t mysterious or undeserved. Canada too typically places high on these lists. [...]
I have been out of touch with my own blog for far too long. Sorry folks, a crush of work and other un-pleasantries has caused me to go into a writing drought combined with writer’s block. With so much bad news and an election down in Dixie/Yankee land that in my mind [...]
The Ãslendingur loves his/her swimming pool. Mostly outdoor pools, little or no chlorine (please wash yourself), heated by the geothermal goodness beneath their feet. A hot day that we might consider a swim is very rare in Iceland so they go swimming not to cool off but to warm up.
Imagine taking in the [...]




