SV: Off to Iceland! (OT)

[Carol Beigel]

Sounds like this trip is going to be more interesting than I ever imagined!  
Normally, here at home, I seldom cook or drink alcohol. I wait until I am on 
vacation to sample the local cuisines; from freeze-dried-just-add-water 
packets of powder in the Boundary Waters/Quetico to the memorable food and 
wines of Venice and Paris.  I understand that "shark delicacy" is so putrid 
that not even vultures, insects, rodents or any other living thing will eat 
it!  Probably a few sips of that Black Death will make me forget to eat!  I 
can just see it now, Carol's New Weight-Loss Program! However, the sipping 
wine in the outdoor hot tubs looking at the Northern Lights sounds quite 
appealing!

I am one of those people who really enjoy the differences in people's 
customs, their food, money and bathrooms, and find it fascinating that no 
matter where I travel in the world, I can never get a local weather 
forcecast except the weather in Scotland!  I figure that if all else fails, 
there are TWO MacDonalds in Reykjavik.

BTW, we will comb the Piano 300 exhibit for anything interesting!

Carol Beigel
Greenbelt, Maryland


>From: Kristinn Leifsson <istuner@islandia.is>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: SV: Off to Iceland! (OT)
>Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 21:23:54 +0000
>
>What Carol doesn´t know, until now I guess, is that the time she will be 
>arriving in is characterized by the eating of a lot of traditional food, 
>including ram´s testicles, scorched sheep´s heads with eyes and everything, 
>shark (that´s been rotting for some months in the ground), a haggis kind of 
>thing, and basically everything that people had to eat in the middle ages 
>in order to stay alive but no healthy minded young game-boy-playing piano 
>tuner would EVER put into the post-stomodeal part of his body.  This is 
>flushed down with Icelandic brennivín (also known as  Black Death) which, 
>incidentally, the aforementioned knave doesn´t mind as much.
>
>She told me that she and her friend liked food.  This will be the moment of 
>truth for her.
>
>
>
>Kristinn
>

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