Thursday, August 21, 2008

Icelandic Handball: Magic Elves, Cured Shark and Existentialism

K-Mad will be rooting for them.

4 comments:

Smiff said...

I have been to Iceland.

The national past-time is sitting in hot springs that if it the temp was one degree higher your flesh would drop off.

Their very thick yogurt is named Skyr.

Lots of different fish in cans.

To stay at the Salvation Army in Reykjavík cost $5. Though this was 1985.

It was cold there - in August.

Not the place to be if you're broke like we were. And we really wanted to go to the Chinese restaurant and ask them, "Why the fuck did you move to Iceland?"

Smiff said...

Where K-Mad can move after McCain is elected:

Salvation Army Guesthouse

A single room is 6,600 Kroner a night - $88. A triple room--were we stayed--is $154. Looks like prices have gone up a little, but this is still apparently cheap for Iceland. Monthly single rate of $400 though... go for the elves, stay for the skyr!

k-mad said...

The Salvation Army - go for the ministering to the poor, stay for the hating on the gays.

The Icelanders were smart to pick a remote island with lots of volcanic s#i+ blowing up - it keeps everybody away.

Smiff said...

Hey, i thought that was the Catholics motto?