tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126262732011-04-21T18:28:39.624-07:00POSTCARDS OF A GLOBAL CITIZENBobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08969654185236586059noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12626273.post-1119352318845092362005-06-21T04:11:00.000-07:002005-06-21T07:20:15.796-07:00

The weekend before last (wow time flies!) I was invited to join my friend Gummi for a trip to his family’s cabin on an island off of the west coast of Iceland. The drive from Holar was fairly uneventful but upon reaching the coast, we parked his car in a farmer’s seaside field where his dad was waiting for us in a boat. After a 15 minute boat ride, we arrived at an island no bigger than a soccer

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Last weekend was my weekend of Icelandic gastronomic sampling. I was fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to taste some of the culinary delights that have been staple dishes for Icelanders since the time of the first Viking settlers. My friend Broddi happens to have been able to borrow the necessary equipment (a large pot, cauldron in fact) to cook one of his favourite traditional meals –

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One evening last week my friend Allan and I decided that the weather was just too nice not to be outside enjoying it. For some time I had been wanting to climb the peak that watches over Holar and here was a fine opportunity to stretch our legs, get some fresh Icelandic air into our lungs and enjoy the outdoors. Also, Allan climbed the peak last summer and since arriving in Holar earlier in the

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I knew before coming here that Iceland was going to be expensive. The friendly folk at Lonley Planet claim Iceland is second only to Japan in cost of living. I successfully managed to overlook the cost of goods in Japan for 3 years (perhaps to the chagrin of my bank account) thus thought 2 months here would be a cinch. However just how expensive the supermarket in Sauðárkrókur is versus the rest

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To view the collage, click on the collage.Or to view each individual photo, click here.Or perhaps a slideshow of them all, click here (this may require some time to load depending on your connection speed).

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I'm sorry, I don't speak Icelandic. Do you speak English?Friends have asked how my Icelandic is coming and I have to frankly reply that it's not. I have resigned myself to not learning it for the following reasons:1. Icelandic is not easy. It would take some serious brainpower and time to learn - two things that I already seem to be slightly short of.2. Almost everybody speaks English.3. I am

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For those of you who may be wondering if I made it to Iceland or not, I thank you for remembering me stationed atop of the world. I did make it here and am surviving quite well. I apologize for the radio silence that has fallen on my communications. No excuses really, except that I have been experiencing the experiences that Iceland has been offering.Already, it has been 3 weeks since I left

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Just a few pictures of Iceland to show that I have actually made it here. To see the photos full size and not overlapping click here. Otherwise you can simply click on the photo to enlarge.

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It was time to create a blog. The problem was, what should I call it?Since it was going to be a blog mainly documenting my travels to share with my friends and family, it needed a name other than simply “Thoughts of Bobby” or “Bobby’s Blog.” I thought of a few, but it was only in that half asleep, narcosis state that one reaches at 22000 feet after 10 hours of being boxed in window seat 26A, did

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