What's Your Thing?

My thanks to Audi for our second guest blog entry. Reading this makes me want to go back to Reykjavik again and again.

I often wonder what it is like to be a visitor in Reykjavik. When you come to a new place you want to take in as much of the environment as you possibly can and you notice every little detail on your way. You see things that the inhabitants have long forgotten and you hardly ever get to see their vision of the city.

I wonder if you notice all the chewing gum in the streets. I wonder if you appreciate the colourful mountains everywhere you look. I wonder if you know how beautiful it gets by the Pond in the golden fall sun.

Reykjavik is just another city and there is nothing special about it. The houses look ugly to the outsider and the people cold and conceited. Yet it has some unexplainable force that draws you to it. You have to look inside of yourself to see what it is for you. For me it's the Elliðaá river and the valley that is named after it. It's walking down Laugarvegur on St Þorlákur's Mass Night and watching the fireworks on Cultural Night. It's sitting in Austurvöllur during the summer seeing all the different types of people come together with ice cream and beer. What's your thing?