8 months ago I had been living in Reykjavik downtown , just a stone's thrown from the Parliament. I would rarely use Straeto services. Now it's totally the opposite, since I live in Breidholt. I find it pretty annoying, that I can't just go out Friday evening , after work.....There are :
1) no trains in Iceland
2) no trams in Iceland
3) no night buses in Iceland
4) no cheap TAXIS whatsoever
So the last bus on the weekend goes at 10 to midnight.....and If I resort to coming back home by a TAXI I will have to splurge 6 thousand Icelandic Kronas....which is an equivalent of more or less 40 euro! What a damn ripoff! Plus the first bus on Sunday ever runs around 11....Well you can always try to walk - definitely the much healthier option...Though not recommended as a cure for hangover, mind you. Anyway going by the bus everyday in Reykjavik means - meeting the exact same people. It takes me around 30 minutes to arrive downtown . What can you do on a bus , having half an hour?
a) sleep
b) learn by heart names of the Icelandic bus stops
c) eavesdrop on people
d)read a book *only if you don't suffer from motion sickness*
e) watch beautiful landscapes
f)reflect on your life
g)try to guess which passenger or bus driver is actually POLISH *chances are high since we are the biggest minority here - 5 or 6% of the whole population.
f) enjoy the 'glass or a window effect' - in Africa they have a phenomenon called 'mirage' effect I happened to experience in Tunisia, but in Iceland you can encounter sth else. So you are either on a bus or in a car. The sun is shining the weather is clear, it looks as if it were 30 degrees outside. Summer at its best. What a perfect illusion and you actually come to realize it as soon as you get off.....Stormy, windy , if you are as thin as me you can feel as if pushed by an engine powered by the oceanic wind.
EUROVISION!
I think there is no other nation in this world that cherishes this song contest as much as they do. Or maybe its just another good reason to get drunk, who knows that?! Anyway Icelanders gather around , cook some nice meal or make a grill party *when the weather allows them to* and support ICELAND with all of their hearts. Why so ? They have never won EUROVISION anyway....And their songs are way too melancholic to get the highest prize.
MEETING UNWANTED PEOPLE!
Yes in medium or large cities like mine , you can get away with murder from meeting undesirable people......Well but if you decide to come back to Reykjavik, you can be pretty sure you will meet all of them during the first few days of your staying! That's the rule and it does work. But it apparently teaches you something- Not to coward away from your problems. And if you are 100% percent sure of not returning to Iceland as I had been before, I advise you to lose your hope. Well it's proven by life not by science that every person that had lived here for a while, actually came back...It can be for a month, for years...But it will happen, so take it into consideration.
IN A PURSUIT FOR CHANGE
Iceland will never leave you unaltered! YUP another rule. So if you have some annoyingly bothering , mind boggling traits of your character , Iceland will help you to fix it up! The harsh, coarse air, silence of the outskirts will give u a lesson. Iceland will prove how strong is your love. Plus provides you with free water . YAY
1) no trains in Iceland
2) no trams in Iceland
3) no night buses in Iceland
4) no cheap TAXIS whatsoever
So the last bus on the weekend goes at 10 to midnight.....and If I resort to coming back home by a TAXI I will have to splurge 6 thousand Icelandic Kronas....which is an equivalent of more or less 40 euro! What a damn ripoff! Plus the first bus on Sunday ever runs around 11....Well you can always try to walk - definitely the much healthier option...Though not recommended as a cure for hangover, mind you. Anyway going by the bus everyday in Reykjavik means - meeting the exact same people. It takes me around 30 minutes to arrive downtown . What can you do on a bus , having half an hour?
a) sleep
b) learn by heart names of the Icelandic bus stops
c) eavesdrop on people
d)read a book *only if you don't suffer from motion sickness*
e) watch beautiful landscapes
f)reflect on your life
g)try to guess which passenger or bus driver is actually POLISH *chances are high since we are the biggest minority here - 5 or 6% of the whole population.
f) enjoy the 'glass or a window effect' - in Africa they have a phenomenon called 'mirage' effect I happened to experience in Tunisia, but in Iceland you can encounter sth else. So you are either on a bus or in a car. The sun is shining the weather is clear, it looks as if it were 30 degrees outside. Summer at its best. What a perfect illusion and you actually come to realize it as soon as you get off.....Stormy, windy , if you are as thin as me you can feel as if pushed by an engine powered by the oceanic wind.
EUROVISION!
I think there is no other nation in this world that cherishes this song contest as much as they do. Or maybe its just another good reason to get drunk, who knows that?! Anyway Icelanders gather around , cook some nice meal or make a grill party *when the weather allows them to* and support ICELAND with all of their hearts. Why so ? They have never won EUROVISION anyway....And their songs are way too melancholic to get the highest prize.
MEETING UNWANTED PEOPLE!
Yes in medium or large cities like mine , you can get away with murder from meeting undesirable people......Well but if you decide to come back to Reykjavik, you can be pretty sure you will meet all of them during the first few days of your staying! That's the rule and it does work. But it apparently teaches you something- Not to coward away from your problems. And if you are 100% percent sure of not returning to Iceland as I had been before, I advise you to lose your hope. Well it's proven by life not by science that every person that had lived here for a while, actually came back...It can be for a month, for years...But it will happen, so take it into consideration.
IN A PURSUIT FOR CHANGE
Iceland will never leave you unaltered! YUP another rule. So if you have some annoyingly bothering , mind boggling traits of your character , Iceland will help you to fix it up! The harsh, coarse air, silence of the outskirts will give u a lesson. Iceland will prove how strong is your love. Plus provides you with free water . YAY
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