In flight entertainment: it's all about that when you travel internationally... and the good thing about this Icelandic Air is that they want to fill you in on all things Icelandic: - yes, it's somewhat promotional, but Iceland could sure use that.. still.
Documentary on Iceland - that was charming... with this girl as cute as a button dressed in that typical white and brown wool sweater - romping around the Revjavik with a lilt in her voice - it's hard to look at the scenery when her face is one big map of happiness. Little tips and nuggets from the screen smack in front of your face for 6 hours.
We also watching Heima - again.... my sound quality sucked which boyfriend had is Bose and was in awe... again.
Also watched this mini little documenary about some dude by the name of Einar Falur Ingolfsson - and his newest book, Saga-Steads, that contains his photographic dialogue with watercolors and drawings of W.G. Collingwood - who traveled around westerd Iceland in 1897. A century later, Ingolfson retraced Collingwood’s footsteps with a camera.
The image of the bus is breathtaking - and lonely, and it’s some place in Western Island called, Vatnsdular.
We are not going west - but if we were, we’d surely see
western Iceland
also watched:
“small island, big stories”
a book opening in an Icelandic landscape, hot springs and mountains, and Nobel Laurieate Halldor Laxness explaining how the country always pulls its people back home. Even the subtitles were poetic - one line refers to Laxness’s mother - and that she had so very little, but she had her poetry and that’s all she could leave him, her poetry, and that was so much more then enough.
