Windy adventures

ok, so this is the sequel to my first post about iceland in wich i wrote to you about all the good things that you can find there, free perfumated hot water, a crisp cold weather, gentle cold breezes cutting your face, and warm and loving Family members! YAY! a toast for the last statement!

now i'll relate some of the adventured that we had while there.
on the first day we went to a festival in some "distant" village, an Icelander would say that it's far, but i don't think they are that used to big expanses of land, to me it was like going from where i live to Madrid.... sometimes they are even lazy to go to the other side of town since they say that it's far, but the capital, Reykjavic can be seen in half an hour, like seeing the most important places; and crossing it from one side to the other might take you 15 minutes by car. we should take some of those spoiled icelanders and bring them to cities like London, Mexico, or Buenos Aires.... there they'll learn the true meaning of a BIG city :p.
so, as i was saying we went to this festival, but there wasn't enough space for all in the cars, so dear Anj and i went hitchhiking. it was my very first hitchhiking experience, and PTL it was good! after a loong time waiting, a guy stopped and took us exactly to where we were going, despite he had to get out of his way to get us there! GBH! it was a good experience for me.
now there in the festival, it was very weird because of all things they were celebrating the day of Ireland!!!?? can you believe it? it's as if here in Spain we make a festivity dedicated to France, it's downright crazy... but anyway, i guess they need some distraction from their boring daily lives... they really should join the Family to find excitement in life! to add that spice they're missing to fully savour the true flavour of life.

while in the festival,i got to admire the beauty of the local women, wich i classify in 2 cathegories: the fat ones, and the super hot and cute slim ones, of this last cathegory you can find brunettes and blondes alike, and each one has smthg very mistic around them... might be the unadulterated viking blood in their veins? who knows...
following you can grace your sight with some of these little viking princesses :) the little kids were just sooo cute! i mainly took pictures of the kids for the home to have pictures of happy customers for when they go to other festivals facepainting.


anyway, now, the next day it didn't lack any ecitement at all for we had a BBQ! for wich they invited all their active members and friends, and i got to meet them all. i must say that they are very sweet people, their spirit is alike of the eastern europeans, very open and talkative to the things of the spirit world and religion, much unlike the usual european you might find on the street in the "rotten" continent, looks like beeing so apart from all the rest of europe has kept them civilized and haven't partaken soo much of the madness that is surrounding us nowadays in this crazy world that we're living in. that afternoon after the BBQ we got a guitar and started to play songs and it was very inspiring, and even Ely and i got the courage to sing some flamenco style songs that we just invented on the spot :p ppl were like WOAH! it sounds soo cool! what does it mean? and Ely and i were like.... u don't wanna know :P we were just teasing each other by dedicating parts of the songs to each one of us, like, ooooh santiii.. how stupid you are! you are soo stupid that you could drown in the shower... and stuff like that :D extremely funny for those that could understand spanish ;) i'll post a video of it if i can.

let's move on to the last day, in wich we went to an open air museum about Iceland during the day, where we learnt cool things about the old times, such as the following:

in the times when the hunger striked the island, they would make shoes out of the fish skin, and when they broke they would eat them.... you may find a sample in the picture of Gabe following their sample.


other tidbits were like they would all sleep in one room, the parents along with all the children, and they would sleep 3 on each bed. i really don't know how could this be possible, they were sooo narrow!


oh and a really cool thing :P if you were passing by and you were a wealthy or important man, the parents would put him to sleep in the bed of the eldest daughter :P by following this custom many children were born in those days :D

to end, one of their unusual customs, wich i find quite barbaric, is that at church, the women would sit on the north side, and the men towards the south, that way, when the cold wind blew and cold air would get in between the wood, it would get to the women first, and by the time it reached the men, it was already warm..... that's so ungentlemanly.... tsk tsk, i would have shown them a thing or two...


there were many other interesting and cool things that we did and that happened during those unforgettable 3 days, but if i wrote them all i would keep you for ours here, and my intention is not to bore you... so with this post i'll end my rumblings about the splendid time i spent in Iceland. if you ever wanna join a cool home, go there :D

this last picture is dedicated to you the Reykjavic home, ILY and miss you all sooo much!