'So let's get the party started'

On the Icelandic plane there are always funny things going on. I love the sense of humour of Icelanders! It is incredible, just have to hear them to understand how great they are :)))

© triskel       Reykjvík, January 2014

© triskel       Reykjvík streets, January 2014

On  Friday night (3rd January) I heard Icelandic steward speaking to all the passengers just after the plane took off from Warsaw: 'We are in the air now, so the party starts!' :) and then he spoke other words that called my attention: 'You probably know that we are heading to the best country in the world!' I fully share his opinion, that's why I moved to Iceland! So I was happy that he confirmed my crazy point of view! Yeah, you probably know that I deeply fall in love with Iceland :) So now is the time to see how the everyday life of Icelanders looks like.

I spent some time in the first week of my stay in Iceland on furnishing my room. It occurred that to buy good price sheets, towels and other stuff, you need to go outside the downtown about 30 minutes walk from Hlemmur bus station.  Also there is one wonderful second hand shop that everybody I know here had recommended it to me. It's called Góði hirðirinn (Good sheppard) and you can find there a lot of furniture, sofas, skies, snowboards and other stuff at a very cheap price. Let's say that is possible to buy leather sofa for 10-20 euro or even cheaper and that's great news! :) All furniture at my place came from this shop and I hope to buy myself a second hand bike and maybe nordic skies when the winter will be coming to town :)

On Friday it started to rain in the morning. In spite of the weather I didn't take the bus as I wanted to learn more about the city. In fact I enjoy long walks. So I went this time to a place that I was told to find cheaper towels and sheets. To my surprise, the long and difficult name 'Rumfatalagerinn' means just a huge Jysk shop that you can find easily in Poland or other European countries as well, but in Iceland you have special name for it, I wonder why?

And later in the evening big flakes of snow covering the whole world started to change into water streams on the streets. Old ice is melting, everything became wet and humid. And the sky was completely covered with clouds at night, no chance for the northern lights that night. So to cheer up a little bit I found this fantastic aurora 360 degree view from 1st January, just have a look, it's amazing! This is exactly something that I'm waiting for :)))

http://olihar.com/aurora01_2014/