Funny about Iceland :-)

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  1. Raggi_Thor
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    Raggi_Thor Nav.arch/Designer/Builder

    This is not boat related at all, just reminds me of the summers I used to work in Reykjavik.

    Quite funny video from a guy who has visited Iceland:
    http://www.ontheruntur.com/2007/02/how-do-you-like-iceland-video.html

    I like the soundtrack, "I am from Reykjavik, Iceland! Gullfoss! Geysir! The Blue Lagoon! Vigdis Finnbogadottir! Hardfiskur! Beautyqueens! Brennivin!"Brenninvin is a kind of schnapps, a little like aquavit, Tarantino doesn't like it:

    http://www.kvikmynd.is/indexdetail.asp?id=1907
     
  2. Bergalia
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    Funny about Iceland...

    Yup. Raggi, a pleasant 'blast' from the past - but much changed from my days - best part of 30-40 years ago. (By the way - if I'd known you'd been to Reykjavik I wouldn't have posted Sun Voyager...):D
     
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    Sorta place I wish I had visited (when I was 20 yrs younger) ((sigh))

    Mychael
     
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    mych, you are not in a rut are you, never too late, and why are you not at work?
     
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    Well, I actually took a sickie today to work on (would you believe) the bluddy Lada. a guy might be interested in buying and I need to get it running right.

    Mychael
     
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    And (sigh) so many women, so many knockbacks lol

    Mychael
     
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    Bergalia, my mother is Icelandic (Raggi is after my grandfather), and I worked a couple of summers in Reyjavik i the late 1980s :)
     
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    Funny about Iceland...

    So, after all these years my son, we've been reunited....:D

    Only kidding Raggi.The one flaw I found with Iceland was that the local girls were all particularly virtuous...unless I was particularly ugly....:mad:
     
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    I didn't understand that,
    I remember on one flight from Oslo to Keflavik, the stewardess was Miss World (or Universe or something), BUT she was not Miss Iceland, she was a stand in they sent when Miss Iceland was sick, all this explained by the captain after telling us about 7 degrees and rain.
     

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    Funny about Iceland...

    I take it in a round-about way you're suggesting I'm particlarly ugly....:(

    Anyway, your mum told me you were adopted.....:D
     
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