Sometimes I miss Iceland so much it feels like Jón Páll smashed his fist through my chest and grabbed onto my heart, twisting it around and around until my internal organs corkscrew in and I choke on my own tongue, gasping and spluttering for air.
So I started blonking for Iceland Express again.
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The bestest if not somewhat gruesome description of how it feels to miss a place, person, thing so much that it, ehm, hurts -as you have put it.
ReplyDeleteIs there a good...or bad...time to visit Iceland? If I manage to stay unemployed, I will be visiting there next year. I will be sure to say 'whatup' to the place for you.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness for blogs, er, I mean blonks like yours, to take us poor expat-wanna-bees back.
ReplyDeleteI can state for a fact that Iceland misses you too sweety.
ReplyDeleteNeal, you're unemployed? What, so you're just at the South Pole all winter for the fun of it? Go to Iceland at the end of June when there's no night-time, that's when people are at their happiest. But you'd know all about that already.
ReplyDeleteYou've sold me. I wanna go.
ReplyDeleteAnnie, what's the cheapest/quickest route to Iceland from Ireland. Er, leaving out swimming in a nor'westerly direction!
ReplyDeleteRyan Air to Stansted and Iceland Express to Reykjavik, I reckon.
ReplyDeleteWe miss you too!
ReplyDeleteYou have my sympathies, Annie. I miss my home planet, too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feature.
Oh my, there I was salivating about a cycle around Iceland, and I find myself in the blonk of the day. What a honour! Ta very much missus, on both counts.
ReplyDeleteNow back to that saliva.
Some German dude published a book in the 80s about Iceland being the perfect cycling country as it is flat with no wind. Now every summer hundreds of Germans turn up with their bikes to find out he was on acid all along.
ReplyDeleteYour Iceland express blonks make me laugh, unlike many other such Icelandic blogs which make me want to cringe.
ReplyDeleteP.s. I suspect that german dude was talking about Denmark... just a bit off in his geography there wasn't he?
Travel guides full of misinformation... I like it... Maybe I'll write something about how Bangkok is very clean, the cops are incorruptible, and the taxi drivers go through a rigorous selection process. Oh, and Thai television is of the highest quality.
ReplyDeleteHad a gawk, seems expensive during the daylight months. Cheapest flights �87 each way ex Stansted and taxes etc bring it up to c.�270 return, min. Pity.
ReplyDeleteCheck out British Airways too... they don't fly every day but if you book far enough in advance they have some good deals.
ReplyDeleteMmmm...nice descriptive use of offal there. As another who's far away from home you have my sympathies, petal xx
ReplyDeleteI am almost... almost... not quite, but almost... inspired to visit Iceland.
ReplyDeleteI actually do remember a time when I missed a country that much, when I was away from it for a year. When I returned, however, I realized I had definitely idealized it in my absence.
I recommend that everybody visits Iceland at least once in their life. It's a great place. Of course I'm not supposed to advertise this really. Truculent will be mad with me.
ReplyDeleteI miss it just like that... and I've only been there twice! (well, three times if you count a sad layover looking over the lava fields with my face glued to the windows at Keflavik...) Nice writing you have - I always enjoy reading you.
ReplyDeleteI lived in Iceland for almost 4 years. They were years of bliss. I miss it just as you said so much that it hurts and every time I think of it I feel like screaming, crying and running away somewhere! If only I could be there again and play football or swim in the midnight sun.
ReplyDeleteI am always happy there, at peace!
I can't go there again this summer as I have no money to and no way of getting anymore till next summer! A whole year without Iceland! :(