bits and pieces from the northern island.
Pu I’ve been virtually leafing through Italian online newspapers during the last few days and I’ve been reading with horror about the Gheddafi visit turning into a variety show, with horses, showgirls and cotillons. The journalists of the main Italian newpapers didn’t bat an eyelid, and only talked about the glamour, with a little weak-humored skepticism … Read the full article →
Learning Icelandic isn’t the easiest of tasks. I got scared myself after a try or two, but I have to admit I haven’t put much effort into it yet. I can say I know more than a few words, but that’s as far as I can go. When I’m forced to know what’s going on … Read the full article →
Let’s accept it: everybody loves cats. Whoever doesn’t love cats is a weirdo, in the most negative sense of the word. From Lolcats to Burroughs, from Shrek’s Puss in Boots to Eliot, cats are and have been source of inspiration for many intellectuals, creatives and artists. They have the power to make people lose their … Read the full article →
Many years ago I read a book by Tove Jansson, entitled Moominpappa at sea (original title Pappan och havet, literally The father and the sea). In this book – I don’t remember if it’s the seventh or sixth in the Moomin series – Moominpappa all of a sudden becomes restless: his uneventful life in Moomin … Read the full article →
It’s time for the annual appointment with the Menningarnótt. This year’s Culture Night is going to take place in Reykjavík on August 21, 2010. The whole downtown area of the capital is going to host several events of different genres held at various locations throughout the whole day, from morning till night, both indoors and … Read the full article →
If you are familiar with recent canine history in Iceland, you have probably heard more than once that dogs were not allowed in Reykjavík until recent times. This means they are still regarded by more than a few people, especially of older generations, as dangerous disease spreaders or at any rate unfit to be in … Read the full article →
We create societies, we implement them, we adapt them to our needs, or to what we accept and codify as our needs. We build the structures, we choose people to manage them and to serve our purposes. Then why in the world we have such an insanely illogical bureaucracy? The only possible explanation must be … Read the full article →
Starting today and ending with a bang later this Sunday, the famous Reykjavík Gay Pride is back and ready to take over the capital this first week of August. The Reykjavík Gay Pride was established back in 1999 and has become since one of the most important yearly appointments in town. Thousands of people of … Read the full article →