I'm so hungry I dreamed about food last night. All kinds of soup for 175 Krona, which is ridiculous because that's AUD$2.40. It's more likely to cost 1750 Krona, or AUD$24. Everything is so expensive here, especially booze. So I've discovered the way to get drunk is not eat. I feel 16 years old all over again.
Last night I sat on a rock at the harbour with my new friend Gerwyn from Brisbane, the first Australian I've made friends with overseas, and we drank Jägermeister from the bottle. I put it out on the rock so it could chill properly. For real, it's about 7 degrees here at night and probably 9 or 10 in the day.
At a cute bar last night I met a guy called Derek who was given a job after just a few days in Iceland. Derek came here after doing some crazy snow trekking in the north of Sweden. He had his bag and visa stolen while sleeping in a park. The Icelanders say that's strange, because Iceland has a low crime rate, and so they think that perhaps it was stolen by another tourist or the Polish.
Soon I will investigate the washing machines, venture out to the supermarket to buy things that look like food and will most likely be labelled in Icelandic, and later I think a dip in the geothermal pools is necessary. Gerwyn told me about going to the pools and having to wash thoroughly in the communal shower before swimming. He forgot his towel and went back for it when he was confronted by a large Icelandic man who yelled at him and then lent him a towel. Gerwyn said he'd like to get yelled at in the nude more often ('it was very Auschwitz') and he was glad that even in Iceland there are still cranky bastards.
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auschwitz -- ha.
glad you're having fun.
i guess everything is so expensive because of all of the importing that they have to do?
publish photos if you can.
i want to see!
just got my album art. cool stuff.
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