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stab posted:Did your country give the men's national soccer team a hero's welcome for their near qualification for the World Cup? To get that far for a country your size is astounding.... Another Icelandic goon reporting in. The World Cup qual was absolutely the hugest sporting even we've participated in since the 2008 olympics handball team coming in second. Although i live in sweden now i can confidently say that everyone and their kviđmágur was watching Iceland - Croatia. Except for the obvious group of people united by their disdain for football. Don't know about the hero's welcome but I think they were celebrated allright. Didn't get the falcon's medal like the handball team tho. If DP doesn't mind i'd be more than happy to chime in and answer a few questions here and there even if me and him seem to have amazingly different views. Also Kviđmágur is a word for someone who has slept with the same person as you. We really are that few.
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tentish klown posted:Iceland booze talk. If you find the taste overwhelming or dislike it then you can always try the classic 'Karlakók' or 'Big boy coke' and just mix it with cola. It's not good at all but teens drink it and it's better than neat if you don't like the taste.
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I know you said OP but i hope you don't mind me answering thesekuddles posted:A few quick questions to the OP based on my visit: Tourism is huge. It's absolutely one of the prime industries. It brings in lots of valuable currency and that's good. You'd think that we the locals would get fed up with all the tourists everywhere but they really tend to stay in the tourist spots. Downtown Reykjavík and on busses. It doesn't really matter though because the only thing an Icelandic person loves more than his country is when a tourist does it. In general Icelanders just LOVE to ask tourists the classic "How do you like Iceland" and then listen to them blabber on about the "Beautiful nature, friendly people, strange food, disgusting fermented shark etc. etc." I don't really know why but we just do. kuddles posted:- On that note, what is it with the hamburgers? Everywhere we went, hamburgers were quite common. While we mostly stuck to lamb and fish (obviously), we did partake in a few burgers and they were all pretty good too. Is this something Icelanders are really into, or is this an attempt to cater to all the North American tourists coming in? It just struck us as odd, especially since there were a billion sheep everywhere you went, but I rarely saw a cow. I don't think it's an attempt to cater to the USA visitors more than an attempt to cater to the fat locals. We are fat. Really fat. And nobody uses public transportation. We love lamb meat though. There's sheep everywhere and we loving love our special tasting delicious lamb meat. It's more of a special occasion thing though, to eat lamb. Almost everyone has some kind of tradition where on sundays the family gets together and devours a leg of lamb or two. kuddles posted:- Do you have any clue how often you hear of tourist injuries occurring? I mean more at the landmarks, I already assume getting dumb tourists out of trouble because their car is in some ditch or stuck in some river somewhere happens quite often. While we really enjoyed how untouched a lot of the natural sites were compared to how much of a tacky spectacle other countries made them, it's really quite daunting to a coddled Canadian like myself when at best you have a sign saying "Try not to die" and a small string fence in between yourself and a super rocky gorge or scalding hot water. There was more than once instance that made me extremely thankful I was wearing my hiking boots. kuddles posted:I'm not a big beer drinker, but I thought the Einstok stuff was pretty damned good, particularly the Toasted Porter.
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I love this country! 
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