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after 2 years of being away i will be back in iceland in 5 days for a brief visit !! i am so excited, i miss the landscape and culture a lot. look out 4 more kaffi time posts coming ur way

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casting a shadow from the sky

photo source

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the nordic house

© Catherine Canac-Marquis. All rights reserved.

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Jan Brykczynski

Arnes

Arnes is an isolated region in Western Fiords in Iceland where I spent an autumn month in 2010. This work was a continuation of my previous 3-year project on a little village in Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains. In both cases I was fascinated with rural life, its connection and proximity to the nature. I wanted to examine this intimate and very archetypical relation. I was also interested in portraying a specificity of life in such small isolated community.

There you’ll find a small community of farmers who have  chosen to farm sheep only.  The people live off the land, as Icelanders have done for  hundreds of years. 

Far from bright lights and big cities, people in the Arnes  region live surrounded by steep mountains and the waves crashing on the shore.  In the Arnes region 38 people live in 15 homes all year round.  In the whole area there are more than 2700 sheep.  Life in Arnes is pretty set, every season has its tasks and chores.  Everything runs on the everlasting circle of life. 

Website

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'Welcome Home' a small building in the town of Akureyri, Iceland.

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Akureyri, Iceland 1989 

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< If I only could, I’d be running up that hill. It doesn’t hurt me. Do you want to feel how it feels? 

< Kate Bush, Running up that hill Hofn, Iceland

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Glacial River Lagoon (Jökulsárlón, Iceland)

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Jenny Harmsen - Iceland, 2011

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Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland

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We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

Ray Bradbury 

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I haven't forgotten about you, Iceland.

video by Skarphéðinn Snorrason

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some screencaps from Icelandic Online!

Ewa and Daniel never kissed because the stove broke. To be honest, I didn't ever see it coming. They have horrible chemistry. 

Anyway, I like this photoset, eldavélin er biluð (the stove is broken!) because here you can see Daniel scoot closer to Ewa and go in for the kiss. Then there is a thump and the stove has broken (???). When they realize they have to call a repair man, Daniel says

VILTU MEIRA RAUÐVÍN?

or, WANT MORE RED WINE?

Can't fix the stove? More red wine. Icelandic Online knows what's actually up. I'm willing to bet Daniel and Ewa became better friends post-rauðvín, considering that in the next lesson they planned a trip waterfall-repelling (fossasig) together. 

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this is me singing in Icelandic  IT IS A VERY ROUGH EXPERIMENT and was completely unrehearsed and i sound so shaky!

one day it'll be better when I can actually concentrate on singing and playing instead of the words, 

Pascal Pinon; En þú varst ævintýr

I covered this beautiful song but Icelandic pronunciation is not great and I panicked and added some syllables like on dauðans djúp. I will try again soon.

"En þú varst ævintýr" it is kind of “you were a fairytale" in English. Sweet, and sad, I think, and just like being in a fairy tale where maybe you fall out of the sky.

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You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.

Miriam Adeney

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I don't know who this blog belongs to, but their photos of Iceland are stunning and you should look at all of them.