tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46817017606390919322024-03-21T12:58:52.779-07:00ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY WALK INTO ICELANDAn adventure to the land of rocks, rain and 5 h of daylight.One does not simply walk into Icelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09544907485591812793noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681701760639091932.post-1567380515549397072016-03-05T12:22:00.000-08:002016-03-05T12:22:27.489-08:00NORTHERN LIGHTS<br />
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11.2 We went to see northern lights.<br />
We followed websites vedur.is and spaceweatherlive.com and<br />
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We tooked our little rental car and drove away from city.<br />
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Unfornatunately we didn't have the ideal equipment<br />
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But here's some samples of what we were able to catch on film.<br />
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It was much more beautiful than pictures are telling...<br />
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29.2.2016 We have visited west of the Reykjavik the tip of the peninsula <a href="https://www.icelandtravel.is/about-iceland/destination-guide/reykjavik-area/detail/item740487/Seltjarnarnes" target="_blank">Seltjarnarnes</a> two times now. First time was sudden decision after work. Tenth of February the sun was slowly setting down but there was still enough light and we were feeling weary and wanted to do something different for a change. I knew there was few geocaches there but this time going was a good idea from Sirja.</div>
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The beach was amazing! Like a small jewel just outside Reykjavik city. Long curvy black beach in the sunset. The sound of the waves and birds. Not too many tourists this time. We took pictures and videos.</div>
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We would have liked to stay for longer but the sun was almost gone and we were hungry so we headed home.</div>
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It is amazing to think that some people are living so close to such beautiful beach. How I envy them.</div>
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Tytti had not been with us and we were eager to go again, all together this time. So in valentines day we went to the beach again. And this time we timed our walk to low tide so we could visit the lighthouse too. You can not go there by high tide, the path is under water by then. I tried to solve the mystery cache but no luck for me that time, so we really have to visit a third time. Not that anyone would be opposed to that. </div>
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One of the most surprising thing we found were these tiny little yellow, black, green and read seashells. It turns out they are the most common of sea snails in europe, flat periwinkles. Still very beautiful though.</div>
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So in the hope of good weather to return to Seltjarnarnes I left my footsteps for the next tide to wipe away.</div>
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A very lighthearted greetings from Iceland.</div>
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<br />One does not simply walk into Icelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09544907485591812793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681701760639091932.post-58607760576249919202016-02-24T11:59:00.000-08:002016-02-24T11:59:19.870-08:00Summary of past two weekends24.2.2016<br />
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The first weekend<br />
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The other week we took our roadtrip number two. We didn't really have a certain destination, just a general direction of south and couple of ready thought pit stops on the way. We left at noon and headed towards Keflavik. Soon after Hafnarfjördur we were hit by the vast nothingness. Absolutely nothing but snow and rocks as far you can see before the mountains break the horizon. No trees, no houses, no nothing. The scenery was quite stunning actually. Little before Keflavik we took a turn to the left towards our first pit stop Midlina. Midlina is a point where the North-American continent and the Eurasian continent collide. You can actually walk between the tectonic plates or walk over the joint on a bridge. The place was beautiful and we took a lot of pictures, just like proper tourists.</div>
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The day was really sunny and without sunglasses it would have been really hard on the eyes. The snow made everything so bright. We have noticed that locals don't appreciate our driving methods, we seem to drive way too slow for they liking. Every single car went by us. But hey, what can you do when you have to take pictures and be in awe at the same time. We drove quite some time through amazing views until we reached our second destination, Gunnuhver. Gunnuhver<b> </b> is a high temperature area and the center of the
Reykjanes Volcanic System which is situated on the tip of
Reykjanesskagi, the peninsula southwest of Reykjavik. It's basically a huge whole in the ground that spits out hot water and steam, loads of steam. It was really really windy that day (as usual) so the steam didn't rise upright, it just flew across the ground in a stream like formation. The air smelled like rotten eggs (sulfur) and you had to walk on the wooden pathways and bridges.</div>
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We saw a cute little lighthouse in the distance but you would have had to take a detour with the car to get there. It looked like it was really close, but since it's extremely hard to estimate distances in Iceland due to the lack of trees and other landmarks, we thought it won't be wise to start walking there, so we just went back to our little Jaris and drove off. On the way to Seltún, we stopped by this amazing rocky shore where the waves just broke underneath us and the air smelled and tasted like salt. The sound of the water hitting the cliff was just astounding. Some of us recorder it and took videos of the place and we all got a litlle sea water on our phones while taking pictures. </div>
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After our little encounter with the ocean we realised there was a huge strom heading towards us on the sea. We still had quite a long way to go and two more places to visit. The last one was a cave, called Raufarholshellir and we didn't want to end up there in the middle of a storm, so we decided to skip Seltún and drive on. On our way to the cave we stopped at two little towns to fill our car and ourselves with some fuel. The towns were both really small and had this eerie feeling. If you're finnish you will now what I mean when I say they had a "Kaurismäkeläinen fiilis". They had that. Big time. Everybody stared at us at the gas station and we really felt not local. The second town we visited had a huge pentagram christmas light thing hanging on a warehouse and a restaurant called The black goats restaurant. I'm not gonna even write everyhting we came up with with this scenario... But eventually we climbed the mountain with our tiny litlle red devil of a car and managed to find the cave's entrance wich was almost entirely covered with snow. I didn't go in, but the others went and took pictures. It was really hard to get in there and even harder to climb out. During summertime it will be a lot easier. The cave system is at least a kilometer long, but Marko, Henna and Tytti didn't go far since it was getting late and we didn't have proper gear. The next pictures are from our longer drive from Gunnuhver to the cave.</div>
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After Raufarholshellir all we needed to do is to drive back home behind a tourist bus. The sun was setting and the views were again amazing. You could see all the airplanes heading towards Keflavik and leaving white trails on the sky. We were rather tired, but again happy. Our roadtrip was succesfull and our phones were filled with beautiful pictures to post on facebook and other social medias.</div>
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So last weekend was quite different from the previous ones. Tytti's boyfriend was visiting here, so they were living on an other location and in the apartment there was only the three of us. And what we did then? Absolutely nothing. Nada. Ingenting. Ei mitään. And it was WONDERFUL. It's great to go and explore and you get this feeling that you must go, you need to go, you have to see everything BUT you have to relax also and take some time to unwind. I myself watched like 10 movies or something, Henna and Marko took couple of walks and also spend a lot of time on their laptops and Ipads. We cooked salmon in the oven and made mashed potatoes on sunday and ate almost all of it (and there was a tremendous amount of food i tell you). And then we continued our nothing doing. I highly recommend doing nothing for everybody. It's good for you, and healthy. </div>
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One does not simply walk into Icelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09544907485591812793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681701760639091932.post-66461045178884601642016-02-08T12:37:00.001-08:002016-02-09T08:28:17.077-08:00UTmessan 2016 @ Harpa Conference Centre8.2.2016<br />
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Fab Lab Iceland was representing at the IT industry conference UTmessan 2016 and we did our part to show what kind of things we do at Fab Labs. We had the mini-milling machine, 3D-printer, 3D-scanner, vinyl-cutter and various little items to exhibit.<br />
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We held a 3D-scanning workshop where people could get themselves scanned and they could then visit our Fab Lab to retrieve their very unique 3D-printed mini-me! Obviously they can't be printed then and there since it does take time for them to print, so we'll just print them at the Lab. I think the most interesting thing was that a blind boy got scanned and he will then have his first "photo" in his hands. I'm very excited to see how he reacts.<br />
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People could also make a sticker with their name on it with our vinyl-cutter. This means mainly children lined up. It was fun seeing some of them amazed by the speed of the machine.<br />
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People crowded the 3D-printer and the mini-milling side of our booth. After all, everyone's seen stickers, but not so many have seen 3D-printing take place. They were sure to keep Bas, Linda and Valur busy all day with questions about all the cool tech available.<br />
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I didn't really have the time to go through all the stuff the conference had to offer, but it seemed to be pulling in quite a mass. The theme was "internet of things" which is a hot topic. I know there was an obstacle-course contest for DIY robots. Some of the contestants were building their own robots at Fab Lab Reykjavik.<br />
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Harpa on it's own is an amazing piece of architecture that fools your sense of perspective with it's odd angels and just makes you wow at the beautiful geometrics of the mirror ceilings and high windowed outer walls. You really have to see it if you ever visit Reykjavik. It's astounding!<br />
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One does not simply walk into Icelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09544907485591812793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681701760639091932.post-92059277592082160122016-02-04T06:41:00.001-08:002016-02-04T12:21:48.025-08:00Golden Circle<div style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9OxDxyLe5e94I4HQVgtW4CNuN0ugvGTV-kVW8aF1a9W5X97qdl4t3g4HnKHPNIr7GBhx3sF9Zh3f4cxCilJbOIH0qRTf8LRCn9GiN5nmoLqfJgEpWxge7wpGBuzIbW3U5rmWwQGuC6U4/s1600/DSC_0024.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9OxDxyLe5e94I4HQVgtW4CNuN0ugvGTV-kVW8aF1a9W5X97qdl4t3g4HnKHPNIr7GBhx3sF9Zh3f4cxCilJbOIH0qRTf8LRCn9GiN5nmoLqfJgEpWxge7wpGBuzIbW3U5rmWwQGuC6U4/s200/DSC_0024.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">Last saturday we wanted to play tourist and took our car did a little road trip. The target was the Golden Circle, which is a very popular tourist route in southern Iceland, covering about 300 km looping form Reykjavik into central Iceland and back. There are three primary stops on the route.<a href="http://www.thingvellir.is/english.aspx" target="_blank"> Þingvellir</a>, which is the name of the national park, the waterfall <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullfoss" target="_blank">Gullfoss</a></span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> (meaning "golden falls"), and the geothermally active valley of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haukadalur" target="_blank">Haukadalur</a></span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">, which contains the geysers Geysir</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> and Stokkur</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">. Though Geysir has been inactive for a long time</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">, Strokkur, on the other hand, continues to erupt at every 5–10 minutes interval. </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">Other stops include Kerið </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">volcano crater, Hveragerði </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">greenhouse village, Skáholt </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;">church, and the Nesjavellir</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> or Hellisheidarvirkjun</span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> geothermal power plant. </span></div>
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One does not simply walk into Icelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09544907485591812793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681701760639091932.post-41872610759634489932016-01-28T10:14:00.001-08:002016-01-29T06:49:29.453-08:00Nýlistasafnið - The Living art museum28.1.2016<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another piece that I liked a lot was called Mermaid and it was made by an artist names Henriette Van Egten. I loved the colors and the little gilded penguins. The piece is from 1981, and it's still amazing.</span><br />
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One does not simply walk into Icelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09544907485591812793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4681701760639091932.post-21857840872628237572016-01-25T07:48:00.000-08:002016-01-27T09:20:25.585-08:00First week summary<div style="text-align: justify;">
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It's monday, the beginning of a brand new work week. Last week was our first week at Fab Lab and it was quite overwhelming at least for some of us. There was a lot to take in and to learn. We started out with getting familiar with the machines that we would be using during our internship. Our first assignment was to make ourselves name tags, so that during open hours the people would be able to ask us things more easily. The name tags would be done with the <a href="https://www.epiloglaser.com/products/legend-laser-series.htm">Epilog laser mini - lasercutter</a>. We started out with getting to know <a href="https://inkscape.org/en/">Inkscape</a>, the open source vector graphic program used to make models for the cutting machines. We wanted to make the tags visually identical, but we all made our own designs first so that we learn how to use Inkscape. The design was kept rather simple and clean so that they would be easy to read. We wanted to incorporate our home country in the tags somehow, but found the map or the flag too plain and boring. Then the Moomins kicked in and we all picked our own characters that we thought resembled us. Mine was Little My, Henna chose The Mymblin and Marko's character was Snufkin. </div>
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On thursday we also got our car from <a href="http://sadcars.com/">SADCars!</a> A small fiercely red Toyota Yaris that makes dolphin sounds inside the car and the exhaust pipe begins to rattle if you keep the car idling. But it makes life so much easier, especially during the weekends when the nearest bus stop is 45 min walk away. The windscreen wipers could be better, since it rains and snows a lot in here, but so far we've managed rather well. The car is so tiny that it's really easy to find a parking place, even in downtown. In the evening the Fab Lab had the second open house for the week. There were a lot more people coming in and going out than on tuesday so even we managed to get some work. Me and Henna helped with the lasercutter all by ourselves, we were so proud. No Marko needed. The day ended at nine pm, so we all were exhausted when got back to apartment.<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">It rains. And it's windy. Like you won't believe it. The wind outside right now is considered a storm in Finland, but here it's nothing. The weather is truly ghastly and it changes quickly. Today it has been sunny then we got some regular rain, then some sleet and now the wind is trying to rip our roof off. Or that's how it feels anyways.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">When buying water or milk READ THE BOTTLE CAREFULLY. Otherwise you may find yourself with black coffee and yoghurt or water that tastes like really really mild Funlight raspberry juice. And neither of those situations is hoped for.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">You cannot rent a car unless you have visa with credit ability. Debit is worth absolutely nothing in here. So if you wanna rent a car, get a credit card.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">You can use a debit/credit card anywhere, so you really don't need cash beforehand. Some flea markets, like the bigger one near the Reykjavik harbor, may have sellers that accept only cash but you can get it easily from ATMs.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Don't come here when it's the peak of the tourist season. The flights and the hostels cost twice as much as usually. Despite the weather, i recommend travelling between January-March. Cheaper to fly at least.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Iceland is extremely expensive (yes i would use the adjective extremely) so you really need a good budget. Cheapest place to get beer is apparently Ikea, which is a very popular restaurant among the locals too. It is a lot more expensive than in Finland thou. Average meals in Laugavegur, the main shopping street, are around 20 euros for the main course only. So go a little further from the downtown, explore. Clothes are really expensive too, the same shirt that was around 40 € in Finland was almost 75 € here in Lindex. But why buy from there anyways when you're in Iceland. But just saying. Food in general is expensive. Meat especially. So keep your eye out for discounts, buy in bulks and put them in the freezer.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">If you have used the hot water from your tab, run the cold for a while before drinking. Hot water contains higher levels of sulfur and other minerals since it's pumped straight from the ground. They aren't dangerous but can make you gassy.. And that's uncomfortable for you and the people around you. The hot water can sometimes also smell bad, like spoiled eggs, that's the sulfur talking. Again, not dangerous, just nasty.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">If you are a vegetarian, pack your own soy. You can't find soy, tofu or anything like that in normal stores. And in the special stores the prices are high. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Parking is really cheap, even in downtown. With 4 euros you can park pretty much the whole day, Quite a difference to Finland where it can be 3 euros or more per hour. So don't leave your car too far. Thou walking in Reykjavik is nice, it's a pretty and cosy city.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Last but not least, the people here are really nice and helpful so don't hesitate to ask if you don't know the way or are other ways confused. The locals speak english really well and since a million people come to visit Iceland every year, they are used to people who are a little lost. Icelandic is a really hard language to learn, and the words seldom resemble swedish, which would make it a little easier for finns to understand signs, maps and other infos.</span></li>
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