The first day of spring!

I am not sure about the weather in the rest of the world but here in Ísafjörður it was a brrright, sunny day. Since we didn't have class we took the opportunity to spend the day outside, playing around and celebrating the arrival of spring ;-)

A little bit of frontdoor ice-licking

It's all about finding a balance

Suse rocks

Purple sandpipers snacking shrimp-trash

Eating fest

Fish factory

Hooks and lines

Wearing my sunglasses

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3!

Out of use boat

Pretty old Mercedes

Suse liked it as well

Bi ba babies

Kitty cat

House out of shipping containers

The subject I am currently in at school is about maritime transportation. The lady who lectured us, told us about the container problem the shipping industry is facing. This problem simply implies that more containers are being transported from Asia to Europe than vice versa. Result: a great abundance of containers for which no solution has yet been found (!!)

In Holland there have already been some initiatives to place students in containers due to a housing shortage, but while surfing the Internet I came across something more interesting and creative. A house constructed of shipping containers – I would sign for one!

 

(Photo: kchandg.com)

(Photo: kchandg.com)

(Photo: kchandg.com)

(Photo: kchandg.com)

Uh-huh portrait

Already halfway through March - Happy Friday!

Making days longer

Ísafjördur ski-resort

Some of the photo's I took on wednesday at the Ísafjördur ski resort. It was a beautiful, sunny day with fastly changing skies. It is hard to think of something better to do after school than this!

Worth looking back!

As it is in heaven

Perfect conditions

View on Ísafjördur



Ryan



With Carla, Ben and Alex (Photo: Ryan O'Connell)



Downhill (Photo: Ryan O'Connell)

What youre waiting for? (Photo: Ryan O'Connell)

The local supermarket – Samkaup

One of the things I am always curious about while travelling is how the supermarkets look from the inside – do they sell similar products  to home? And  more interesting – what odd things do they have in their assortment.

The first thing I noticed here was that groceries are 20-50% more expensive than in Dutch supermarkets. The Icelandic króna (1 EU = 160,55 ISK) makes it easy to fool yourself and actually feel a little wealthier with all those 1000 and 500 bills in your wallet. However,  it has the reverse effect when you have to pay 1200 for a piece of cheese.

Here in town there are two supermarkets: Samkaup and Bónus. The latter is the cheapest option but simultaneously the one that takes you half the world to get there – unless you have a car or a passion for walking (or a beautiful appearance that could be used for hitchhiking). Since I have neither, I went to Samkaup, a 5-minute walk from our front door. The products are kind of similar to what I am used to and I was not able to find the seal flippers, whale or head cheese that I thought I would find.

The Samkaup

Plenty of fruits and nice drinks

Pieces of shark - kind of odd to me

My favourite place in the supermarket - the cheeses

Svid - Sheephead.. Icelandic delicatesse

Dairy products

Skyr is a sort of strained yoghurt, very popular in Iceland

Hardfiskur - wind dried fish



Where is everybody?



Light beers - the only alcohol available in the supermarket

People here like knitting - there is even a knitting café

Today's photo's

Below are some of the pictures I took today during a long walk and hitchhike trip from Ísafjörður to Bolungavik