And I found yet another panorama in my photo collection!

Sad news this morning in my feed reader; Anneke van Giersbergen, singer of The Gathering is leaving the band after 13 years for starting a new band called Agua de Annique.

Here’s another beautiful Icelandic song, Maístjarnan (the May star). By Halldór Laxness, written in 1937.

After Abraracourcix the Iceland blog was next to move places.

Over the weekend, I have transferred the web site from Abraracourcix to Sunny. I’m in the process of slowly phasing out Abraracourcix’ services, eventually moving the hard disk into Sunny and then put it to a well deserved sleep.

Een 32-jarige vrouw keek afgelopen weekeinde raar op, nadat zij bij een supermarkt in Boekel boodschappen had gedaan. Toen zij thuis een zak chips uit haar tas haalde, viel er een betonboor uit. Het is onduidelijk hoe de betonboor in de zak chips terecht is gekomen.

Ampelmann anno 1998

Yeeeh, Rivella is going to be marketed throughout Europe, according to the readers of Frank-ly! (Hint: whois drinkme.nl, Heineken is owner of Vrumona, thanks to the research-fu of the visitors of Frank-ly ;-))

While it is not very uncommon to see advertisers go to Iceland to use the magnificient landscape as a backdrop for their productions (Axe also does it= for their self-tanning body lotion stuff by the way), it is pretty uncommon to hear Icelandic folksongs on Dutch television.