So on saturday I went to the volcanic eruption which is currently going on in Iceland. 3 co-workers of mine and me rented some helicopter trip which went from Skógafoss up to Fimmvörduháls where the eruption is happening. There is only one word to describe this experience: AWESOME. We took quite some fotos and some video [...]
So we had Þorrablót yesterday. For those of you which do not know what this is, it’s the traditional icelandic midwinter feast where a lot of original viking dishes are being served. And those dishes are really tough. For a start, there’s sheep head (Svið) and sheep testicles (Hrútspungur). These do actually taste a lot [...]
If there’s one thing that constantly surprises me over here in Iceland, then it is the amount of high-tech applied in every day life. No, I do not mean that basically every delivery service and postman is equipped with some mobile credit card reading device. Even the use of facial recognition as access control mechanism [...]