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Eating out in Reykjavik

My internet buddy Mattias shall be traveling to Reykjavik nest week and I offered to mail him some ideas for places to eat. I then decided to make my recommendations into a blog post, so that maybe others could benefit from my list. So, here are some eating places I would recommend you to try, [...]

Now I’m Happy!

It is very seldom one receives personal letters these days. When it happens it is always very exciting, as they are almost always good news. Today when I got home from work I was not very happy, quite fed up actually. This particular letter could therefore not have picked a better time to await me [...]

A Visit to the Garbage Tip

Who would have imagined a trip to the tip could be such a nice experience. Here are my reasons why: Firstly, it is of course great to get rid of stuff. In our case we cleared a load of stuff out of the basement storage room. There were a load of old skis, a hamster [...]

Vive la République!

On Saturday I watched the royal wedding on TV. I did so because royals intrigue me and I like looking at the dresses. What intrigues me is the silliness of it all; obsolete traditions kept in use only to differentiate them from us. I am totally and utterly against monarchy and I find that as [...]

Stuart’s Big Day

Our Stuart has now graduated from gymnasium (eqvivalent to upper secondary school). It has been a good three years at Haraldsboskolan and the Technology Programme; he has worked hard and he deserves his very good grades. As a mother it is very weird to think that the boy is now grown up and ready to [...]