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Kreppa takes a holiday
The almighty kreppa doesn’t have to dominate the news every day. Life goes on and we must pause to take notice. Turns out the otherwise stoic Icelander are possibly the worlds best at something you might not expect. Film at 11. .Inspired by the kreppa but this goes way beyond, a whole neighbourhood that was [...]
Kreppa Quote
Best quote of the day, from The Iceland Weather Report The Icelandic nation has been nearly wiped out about three times in the last 1,000 years, through famine, disease, or volcanic eruptions. So what we are experiencing today is like a luxury problem.
f**king kreppa
Say Don, what’s a kreppa? In old Norse and modern Icelandic it is the noun for “crisis”. During these dark economic times the term is commonly used and in some circles it is a tiresome word. A word that is perhaps too perfect. The most common English curse word I heard in Iceland was used [...]
Merry Christmas – Gleðileg jól
On Christmas night itself – so a wise man writes – the lads were all restraint and just stared at the lights. Then one by one they trotted off into the frost and snow. On Twelfth Night the last of the lads used to go. Their footprints in the highlands are effaced now for long, [...]
