Flatey-Weekend with the Flateysuperteam plus Superdog!

a brilliant, amazing, awesome weekend on the small island straight across in the bay called Flatey!

more to come ...

icelandic not for beginners

longest icelandic words:

• Vadlaheidavegavinnuverkfaerageymsluskúr = “a tool shed for workers manning the road over Vadlaheidi pass”
• aestaréttarlögmadur = “Advocate to the Supreme Court”
• hæstaréttardómaravinnukonuútidyralyklakippuringur = "Supreme Court Judge's housemaid's outdoor keychain ring"
• skammdegisthunglyndislampi = seasonal affective disorder lamp."

found at icelandreview

Komdu (or details for leaving the rock)

i booked me flights out from this rock, means flying down to Reykjavik on the 1st of October, then taking the plane to Copenhagen on the 4th and heading from there back to Dusseldorf the morning of the 7th.

what does this means? First, i have 3 days in Reykjavik, even a last Friday-"Runtur", next day soaking in at the "Blá Lónið.", flying for 3 days to Copenhagen, have an nice "nights out" on Saturday, too. Some arty museums on Sunday and Shopping for new Glasses on Monday. perfect plan, i would say!

BUT, we all hopefully see us at my place in duesseldorf on the evening of the 7th, cause i have birthday on the 8th.

So I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A " OMG, HE MADE IT BACK HOME, AGAIN" and "B*DAY"- PARTY in once: serving Brennivín, Hákarl or other dishes of þorramatur, incl. hunderts of boring whale pictures to you!

i need to go there: somehow!

one of the many reasons i am here, is hiking. in the last weeks there was so much going on, that i couldn't find time and effort to go into the wild 8besides small staff and ásbergi/dettifoss-walk). a shame!

another problem is, that a lot of the well-marked, well-know tracks are in the south, skaftafell, landmannalaugur, þörsmörk, skogar or up northwest, hornstrandir ...

anyway, time is running fast and i need to find a way to come at least to landmannalaugar, the "overland-track" of iceland.



should be an easy 4-5 days walk, if, of course weather is stable. the only problem is, that it cost me around 150 Euro (Transportation) to do it and i need at least 7 days from landmannalaugar to skogar and back up north (via on night in rey).

and its the tourist season in full bloom, means hundreds of german couples in jack wolfskin or salwea jackets on the trail, talking shit ... :-(

at the end of the month, i am again in reyjavik, my guests are coming and in september, we switch back to our 5days work/2 days off schedule at the museum.

what should i do?

how to find those nice geo-thermal bathing pools?

1. ask the locals
2. look at: http://sundlaugar.is

one of the delights of hanging around in iceland. nice free geo-thermal heated bathing pools! everywhere! but there is one important role, esp. for visitors. you must wash yourself before NAKED (if possible) before entering the pools, cause there is no chlorides eg inside.

must be even gorgeous in wintertime. and remember u don't swim in pools, you let yourself soak in and talk, while having a cold beer!

Sommer, "merchant weekend" & wale

Hier ist der Sommer ausgesprochen: seid ca. eine Woche 20 - 25 grad! ich wuenscht ich waere ein Tourist, muesste nicht arbeiten und koennte entspannt mit dem Auto Island erkunden. Aber auch so freuen wir uns ueber das gute Wetter!

Es scheint, das auch die Wale sich freuen und in letzter Zeit wurde sehr oft von "breachenden" (springen) Humps (Buckelwalen) berichtet. Wie FRank in seinem Kommentar schon vorausagte, so haben Annika und Ich gestern abend _endlich_ einen dabei zugesehen. Einfach UNGLAUBLICH! Ich hatte keine Kamera mit und das war gut so, da ich mich so, nicht hinter der bloeden Kamera verstecke, sondern mit Augen und Herz dabei bin. Aninika hat das ganze auf Video und vielleicht schiebt sie es auf youtube hoch :) HAT SIE !




Vorgestern bin ich zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben 180 km (hin und zurueck) gefahren, nur um ein Kinofilm zu sehen. So ist das also auf dem Land! "Batman" war ok, der Joker grandios und die Fahrerei quatsch. Aber bitte! So ist das hier auf em Dorf!

Dieses Wochenende ist hier "Merchants’ Weekend", dh langes Wochenende fuer alle Islaender, welche raus fahren, Festivals besuchen und bei dem unglaublichen Wetter ihre Insel unsicher machen ... eine schoene Erklaerung liefert wie sooft IcelandReview

Ganz gross: Weltmeisterschaft der Religionen!

Von Halfpastselberschuld, ua. grossartige Kuenstler, Musiker und Geschichtenerzaehler, dabei Freunde und Mitbewohner in Duesseldorf.

Annika macht auch tolle Bilder!

Meine "Mit-Volunteerin" Annika macht auch tolle Bilder von hier oben. Anschauen!

Tick, Trick und Dan

DANKE FRANK!

patrick schreyers iceland photo blog

sehr schoene momentaufnahmen von island: http://blog.patriceschreyer.com/

roadtrip around skagafjördur .

Letzten Montag bin ich alleine nach Akureyri einkaufen (yes, BonusShirt!) und danach einmal um die skagafjordur- peninusla, via Siglufjörður, Saudarkrokur, Varmhilð rumgefahren.

schnell mal 500km zusammengekommen (uff, das kostet sprit!) und leider alles im Regenwetter, Island halt. Denoch viel gesehen und eine schoenen Tag verbracht. Zu empfehlen: das verlassene Siglufjördur und sein Herring Era Museum

vegetarism in iceland (oder nicht?)

ich bin ja hier seid 3 monaten nicht wirklich am suendigen, nach 8 jahren muss und darf man seine Entscheidungen nach denen man lebt, auch gerne ueberdenken, ueberpruefen und korriegieren.

Ich muss sagen, das mein Verzicht auf Fleisch und immer staerker Fisch in den letzten Jahren FUER MICH richitg war und ich dies auch wieder bestaerkt durch das Ausprobieren "ob es immer noch richtig ist" bejahen kann. Ja, ich brauch und will kein totes Tier.

Fuer alle die ein paar Tipps brauchen: Vegetarism in Iceland

Breaking news: ORCAS !!!

i will write more, as i have the time to. with pictures, everything. THIS is NOT normal here in the bay, orcas maybe once or twice a season, killing a minkee in front of boots just stuff u see on "National Geographic!" i havent been on the boat, but we tried to get them later ... but i saw the whole "pod". just awesome, those creatures! i was really exited about the bluewhales, but this time i was shivering. what magnificent creatures ...

Plesease see the website of northsailing.is for the first pics by heimir

"contradiction" aus wuppertal (11.07.2008)

weeks ago. nice guys! need to be back next day cause family and work in germany was waiting for them. quite bizarre to see a german trashmetallband in an upmarket harbour-cafe/pub ... anyway we had von

alles wieder gut mit email ! danke

thomas, danke patrick ....

ATTENTION MAIL 2 DANIEL IS brOcken !

IT SEEMS RONINARTS.DE IS DOWN, PLS SEND MAIL TO MY GMAIL ACCOUNTS :::..
Es scheint das meine domain "roninarts" gerade vom server geschoben wurde, daher bitte Mail an meinen Gmail Account ... danke ..

.oO (hope, xpatrick and thomas are working on the new server, somehow?!)


Update: danke patrick! leider ist der server fratze und warscheinlich gone ... anyway, bitte email an: danielkoening at gmail dot com

dan at chaosdorf und alle andere forwarden auf roninarts, welches auf gmail forwardet .... sic!

Kimi Records on Tour ! Juuuhhuuu!

Tommorrow at the "Gamli Baukur": Kimi Records Tour! Plus Special Price on my favorite "Kaldi Beer!" Seems perfect !!

We are going on a Summerfun Tour!. We being Kimi Records and 4 bands signed with the label, Benni Hemm Hemm, Borko, Morðingjarnir and Reykjavík!. We will stop at Iceland's hottest places around the countryside and bring more hotness to the table. When Kimi Records Summerfun Tour comes to town speakers explode. Among places we are exploding are Ísafjörður (The hometown of Reykjavík! boys and allegedly Mugison), Húsavík (whale watching capital of the world), Seyðisfjörður (Nicest place in the world) and Höfn (lobster capital of Iceland).
The setup is quite simple. Every concert starts at 20:00 and the admission fee is 1.000 kr. / 9 eur. Tickets are sold at the door except for the NASA show in Reykjavík. You can buy ticktets for that show midi.is You will be able to buy T-shirts and CDs from us before, during and after the show so bring alot of money. There will be a special price on Kaldi (bruggsmidjan.is) before, during and after the show so bring more money. The schedule is here and on the right. Info about the bands are here and on their myspaces. If you have any questions just send us some emailsor just ask somebody sitting close to you.

SAVING ICELAND PROTESTCAMP NOW

New shinny website and the ProtestCamp is near Reykjavik. Directions to the Camp are here

"The 4th Saving Iceland action camp has now begun in a beautiful threatened geothermal valley beside Hellisheiðisvirkjun in the Hengill area, where it will target the expansion of the geothermal power station for the Grundartangi plant and other Southwestern heavy industry projects. (1) Tis year activists from Iceland, Australia, America, Denmark, Germany, Britain, Holland, France, Belgium and Italy amongst others have joined the campaign as information about the destruction of Iceland’s wilderness has spread. This year the campaign will focus specifically on the humanitarian effects of Aluminium production, from the genocides associated with mining in India, South America, Jamaica and more, to the use of Aluminium for arms manufacture and the defence industry (2).

A week of international Saving Iceland solidarity actions will take place from July 21st to 27th in different European countries. Moreover a specialised conference with respected Indian writer and Aluminium expert Samarendra Das and Andri Snær will examine the idea of “green Aluminium” and the effects of the Aluminium industry in the Third World, (July 23 at Reykjavikur Akademia).

Me and good old Stjaki; The Proof!

me, stjaki and the girls ...


damm, i am to fat and look like i am shitting my pants! next time more "clint-eastwood-no-country-for-old-men"-style. and "stjaki" is just plain cool and probably bpretty bored. sorry, dude!

tonight, their is a b*day-party at "saltvik" ... good to get used to those fellas

"Minke on the menu" Australian TV Documentation about Whaling in Iceland

and the Whale Museum. Please watch the feature, cause it sums up the whole bizarre situation in Iceland quite well:

see: http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/minke_on_the_menu_550083