tales from the "it's life Jim, but not..." dept.

full of awesome. I’ve been in Iceland since Saturday, and there are so many impressions. where to start?

I think it’s a tie between driving over unsealed road 52 from Rykholt to Þingvellir, all gravel and steep awesomeness, driving though the glacially scowered black volcanic desert en route to Vik , or driving back over the plateau towards Reykjavik when the rain turned to snow due to the height and the whole moss covered lava landscape turned into everything being white, white road, white sky, white lava plains.

pictures to follow ofc.

Much of Iceland is, to me, bleak, forsaken and desolate in places. RVK seems to be the complete opposite of the entire rest of the country. You probably need a car to appreciate the country properly, and I am a bit sad that we lack the time (and the inclination) to really get around to the other side of the country and see what is there. Mostly the towns other than RVK seem functional in the extreme, with fuel stations, tool shops and community centers dotted about.

That’s all for now folks :)

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so my friend Yoni was over here in NL again to do some stuffs for her job and to check out some places where she might live, and I went down to Tilburg, booked myself into her hotel and we met up again for beers, foods and chats.

before that though, we had a little walk around, checking out a street where she might have an apartment option, though sadly it seemed to either be in a orange monstrosity that had a old-people’s home look about it, or a large rectangular modern grey bit of lego that would have been pretty stunning three years ago but now had a bit of a gloomy look to it, especially since it was somewhat off the main streets. had dinner in a great place of which naturally I have forgotten the name (I’ll have to look it up), which was full of awesome, both the wine and the desert (mmmm) deserving special mentions. afterwards we went out for some beers and Tilburg central, even though it’s not as picturesque as some Dutch towns, is still pretty nice, with plenty of cosy student orientated bars to hang out and enjoy a beer or three.

update: Yoni tells me she may have a better place sorted in a town close by. I’ve seen pics and it looks awesome I must say!
update2: bah, she’s not getting the really nice place it seems :/
update3: yay, she’s getting an even better place!! woohoo!!

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yay! according to the hospital there seems to be nothing physically wrong with my mother, so one worry laid to rest at least! yesterday she got the results back from her mri and brain wave scan, and the experts say she’s fine. Ofc I had to laugh at what some down-to-earth doctor had told her: tripping over things is fine, it’s what happens when you hit the ground that you have to be wary of! now she just has to get her dislocated finger working again, and she’ll really be back at it! I’ve advised her to slowly start working it in some hot water, making fists and the like, but I will have to watch out she actually does this exercise rather than just pretending to for the benefit of me.

as to her household gadgets, the laptop I got her seems to be working well enough, although her isp is a bit shit and she doesn’t want to get a new one because she’s old :p no really, she limits herself to sending emails and just doing some bank stuff every now and then, rather than more. I have gently introduced her to google and wikipedia, but still she just sits and looks at the screen rather than reading the letters it displays haha. speaking of letters, her new printer is amazing! I actually quite tempted to get the same one for myself! in typical HP fashion, it does want to install a lot of shit to go with the printer rather than just it’s driver which never fails to irk me *remembers the days when he had to install 300MB worth of software just to get his scanner running*

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not only am I going to Iceland this year….I am going back to the west coast of Australia next year! WOOOOO omg this is so awesome!!!!!!!

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omg omg omg! wow, I am going to the IcelandAirwaves music festival in Reykjavik! Flight is booked and everything! Awesome!!!

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