Living in the land of ice and fire. Magnetic storm finally reached Iceland..

  © triskel     Northern lights in Reykjavík, on 10th February

 So the magnetic storm finally reached Iceland.. And maybe because of it, last week was full of emotions and surprises while waiting for the northern lights to appear on the Icelandic sky.. A real emotional storm came before the green lights and swept off all the illusions that were growing inside me for over 6 months until know..
Well, just after my skiing adventure I felt so many strong emotions rising in me and I knew it somehow that something was not clear, something was going wrong in my relationship.. Just intuition..

Don't worry, I feel big relief and I'm fine now, just a little bit sad and empty inside but still happy that I decided to move to Iceland, such a fantastic place in the world!! :))

 Indeed, it was very tough moment in my life and I felt to be at the very bottom for a while but then one of my colleagues help me to understand that I just reached the emotional bottom, so now it can be only better as I will be coming up to the water surface step by step.. And I was really lucky to meet one of my new friends 'by coincidennce' again in one of the Reykjavik's cafes, very nice Canadian guy. By his presence and understanding he helped me to go over it in the worst moment and not to think too much about what had happened in the past.. I knew he deeply understood what I was going through in this moment as he had had very similar story in his life recently.. in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
So this time I was playing a card game called 'Cards against humanity' with a group of friendly people from the States and Canada and trying to guess the context of their culture as I was the only non-English speaker. I was doing quite well in the game and the place was really amazing, with a view of the Ráðhús (Reykjavik's City Hall) and colourful bridge lights on the Tjörnin lake.. Yes, there is Winter Lights Festival in Reykjavik during whole week 6-15 February.

© triskel     Winter Lights Festival in  Reykjavík

So I feel deeply relieved and can start a new episode in my life again. Finally, I don't need to be puzzled about relation with the Icelandic guy anymore. Obviously, he wasn't interested in me that much and I was illusioned for so many months only because he had so many friendly feelings for me.. And my heart's got frozen with the Icelandic ice for a while, even if it's blue it's only an ice so it will melt one day on this volcanic island. I'm sure about it!!

Ok, let's leave it for now. It just happened on Thursday one week ago so maybe it's too early for this story..

© triskel     Northern lights in Reykjavík, on 11th February

On Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday night Reykjavik downtown sank completely in the green light of aurora borealis. Exceptional and magical spectacle of lights appeared in the sky!
The northern lights came exactly in the very moment when I stopped to look for them, I just forgot about them for a while.. and they appeared so surprisingly and in such a beautiful and unexpected way! I was watching them on the great terrace in the very centre of Reykjavik downtown, at my friends' place. I was so happy and cheerful, it was such a magical moment so I forgot for a while about all the painful story that happened one day before. Northern lights and the beautiful starry night! I'm so grateful that I could see it in such a great moment and place :)

I went aurora hunting for next 3 nights and I took some nice photos downtown, by the sea and by the Tjörnin lake. And was walking on ice to take some nice pictures of aurora arc for you :)

© triskel     Winter Lights Festival in  Reykjavík

Sometimes it can start about 8 p.m. like on Monday evening, but usually the right time to hunt for the northern light is about 11 pm. So you need to wear warm cloths, prepare you tripod and camera and go hunting into the cold night.. That's magic! I love this flow of the green and yellow lights and hope to see them outside the city one day, in all its green splendour..

Just yestarday I start 3-days marathon at the Sónar Reykjavik Festival 2014, I guess it's second edition of Sónar here. It's mostly electronic music, hosting artists from U.S., Europe, Iceland.. great fun to see them in live concert.



More musical news coming soon :)

© triskel     Winter Lights Festival in  Reykjavík

© triskel     Winter Lights Festival in  Reykjavík