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Post by pbrekke on Feb 6, 2013 10:05:30 GMT
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Post by karlox on Feb 9, 2013 9:10:02 GMT
Interesting reading and beautiful pics! Currently trying to figure it out and Hope I will be able to make it with a couple of friends before this year ends...by november-december 2013 ( probably to skandinavia or Iceland if affordable) . But watching an Aurora is definetly something I would like to get in this life!
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 10, 2013 2:40:06 GMT
Karlox:
Iceland would beat Scandanavia.
Very friendly people, great country.
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Post by karlox on Feb 13, 2013 20:11:51 GMT
Karlox: Iceland would beat Scandanavia. Very friendly people, great country. Was there in summer 2008... right before their autoum crash ;D Amazing place indeed... and very ´green´ (you know, thermal energy) and greener now they´ve had to sell out half of their big luxurious 4 x 4 and stop buying second-third properties... I was there right on top of their bubble, and learned a few months later how unleashed finantial corps can dragg a country to bailout... like in Spain, somehow. Difference: they are drafting a new Constitution, brought former prime minister to Court... etc. Admirable barely 300.000 people country... Music, friendly... and a bit rude and rowdy youngsters, guess viking way...  Just for visiting my own continent further north I would like Tromso, but finally total cost could make the difference... now Iceland currency must be about half it used to be related to euro? Have to go back to Iceland: lots of lessons learned from them! (and they do not renounce to welfare system, neither before nor now) Glad you like this!  |
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 14, 2013 2:06:00 GMT
Karlox:
I am of Icelandic heritage.
A story around here:
The German farmers would laugh at the Icelandic farmers because the German plow furrows were lazer straight, while the Icelanders plow furrows were meandering.
The Icelanders smiled because they were reading as they plowed. The Germans could not read, nor even sign their proper name.
A US citizen of Icelandic heritage is responsible for a lot of the 40's, 50's and 60's advancements in tractor tech.
We seem to be a curious lot of people. Not scared to embrace new tech, and most certainly not scared to learn.
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Post by karlox on Feb 14, 2013 9:40:32 GMT
Karlox: I am of Icelandic heritage. A story around here: The German farmers would laugh at the Icelandic farmers because the German plow furrows were lazer straight, while the Icelanders plow furrows were meandering. The Icelanders smiled because they were reading as they plowed. The Germans could not read, nor even sign their proper name. A US citizen of Icelandic heritage is responsible for a lot of the 40's, 50's and 60's advancements in tractor tech. We seem to be a curious lot of people. Not scared to embrace new tech, and most certainly not scared to learn. That 2008 summer trip -I´d circuit clockwise main road ´round the Island, wish was great for tourist buses were always counter-clockwise, so I had mostly the road for myself... in august. That feeling of ´frontier´, vast coast and inland endless landscapes... and by the time in 2008 newspaper sunday´s EL PAIS picked up ICELAND for an especial feature of what was considered world´s highest mean living standard country. But really, I could smell the ´bubble´ which meant that icelanders largely got involved in credit purchases for goods and housing (vehicles, tech, anything) As good rooted traders nearly every family joined consuming freakness for buying second, third residences... for hiring to tourist, more money etc... And then, one day it was gone. Remember. Lots of lesson to learn from there! In Spain citizenship oposition to corruption and the two parties leadership past decades always take Iceland as an example: they´ve grabbed their future again into their hands -keeping brits and others debtors under control- and opening a constituent perios in which nearly everybody has been able to participate. For sure they are only 300000, we are over 40 million, but would really like my fellows citizens to behave such as icelanders. Good rooted you are!  |
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Post by Doug Huffman on Feb 14, 2013 12:59:21 GMT
Karlox: I am of Icelandic heritage. [ ... ] A US citizen of Icelandic heritage is responsible for a lot of the 40's, 50's and 60's advancements in tractor tech. We seem to be a curious lot of people. Not scared to embrace new tech, and most certainly not scared to learn. Nor afraid to teach. Icelander Chester Thordarson's vacation retreat's boathouse still stands on Rock Island, the next Island north of Washington Island, Wisconsin, one of the largest Icelander communities in the US. Please visit. Thordarson Magnetics and Thordarson Meissner still make quality transformers. |
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