I wonder if this is actually true? Like I could probably take the time to look this and verify its validity, but I won’t.
It is. 10% of the population are published writers. Not much to do there during the long and harsh winter…
My favorite fact about Iceland is that 2/3 of the names that got carved in stone about me, actually contain my real name.
I had 3 accounts when the EvE memorial got made.
There is almost a 0% chance that I will ever see that stone.
We booked a holiday to Reykjavik and I was SO excited to go find my name, but then realised we’d booked for almost exactly one month before the planned unveiling. Guess we’ll just have to go back one day!
Did get a cheesy photo of myself doing a thumbsup outside of CCP HQ. And you know, saw awe-inspiring natural wonders and stuff. So that counts for something I guess.
In case anyone else was OOTL about this like I was:
If you live on or near the East Coast, Play Air has round-trips from Dulles to Keflavík for less than 500. I just got back and Iceland was amazing!
Opposite side of the country. I’d have to go in late Aug, early Sep to not freeze the whole time.
It was surprisingly temperate. We drove the entire country and I would not recommend the NE corner as it was all snow, but the South usually stays around 8c and Reykjavik was hovering around 5c the whole time. The coldest I saw was at 1a in Þingvellir National Park and that was -8c (23f-ish).
The Northern Lights were absolutely breathtaking and going in summer keeps that from happening.
I can see why no one’s favorite fact about Iceland is that their national dish is shark fermented in its own urea and then hung out to dry for months.
I mean I can see it back when they were Vikings, desperate to survive, but come on, Iceland. Move on from eating the dried pee sharks.
I’m pretty sure they just do it for the tourists now.
I remember when I was there. They were all very excited about a Costco opening up, and I don’t imagine they carry shark pee soup.
How the fuck did you collect the sharks urea? I see how it gets expensive… Lmao
Sharks don’t really pee. It gets stored it in their body tissue instead. Part of the preperation of shark is essentially pressing it for weeks to bring out the ammonia and let it break down into something that won’t kill you. Doesn’t taste good, but won’t kill you.
Damn I was planning a trip to Iceland this food got into my list but if u tell me it tastes shit I guess I would have to take it out …
Umm actually 🤓🤓🤓 because icelandic is closer to old nordic its a lot different than swedish(and norwegian, danish)
My favorite fact about Iceland is that their horses are all members of a labour union.
I really want this to be true because it’s amazing. Do you have a source by chance?
They might be talking about FIEF.
Sounds like he has a lucrative consulting career in his future.
