OT Anyone been to Iceland?

Why not just stay here and think of Christmas as a midwinter heathen
festival like everybody else does?

 

Work in progress wrote

<heavy with sarcasm>

Become something of a tradition with you has it?

 

I didn't know you were a woman. Did you used to be someone else?

Happens a lot around here.

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Verdigris wrote

There is a tradition of mid winter festivals which predate written
records.

I have to confess that although a little OTT these days I prefer to
celebrate the reality of consumerism than someone else's imaginary
friend and in a perverse sense welcome what Xmas is becoming.

 

I like to think of Christmas as a culmination of very good advertising
to the aspirational amongst us.

Unfortunately this year I've accidently taken a vow of poverty or as I
like to call it "maxed out credit cards" ;-).

 

<holds hands up> It's a fair cop, I was tired, that was badly phrased.

It's based on one very unpleasant experience in Egypt last year.
However as a woman travelling alone, I don't want to be in countires
that, in their laws and culture, treat women as less than men.

Do you know any Islamic countires where this is not the case?

 

snip Xmyth holidays.

Hog, you think 3 strikes and someone should die, but you'd boycott for
whaling. Yeah, right, pull the other one.

If I was feeling environmentally friendly I would, however the fact
I'm flying really counts me out of the 'holier than thou' thing.

I know. Suits my mood.

I considered Rome, my favourite city, but discounted it for vaious
reasons.

What's she come up with so far?

 

Look if I'm going to listen to my conscience on this one I may as well
stay home and sit in the dark.

 

The shortest day in Reykjavík is about 4 hours long in addition to
some twilight. How much daylight there actually is depends on the
weather, it can be pretty bright in snow and sunshine but if there is
no snow (there is a 50:50 chance of white christmas in Reykjavik) and
overcast and rainy there will not be much light.

 

That's my take it on it.

I'm avoiding becoming more dumpy and I don't really drink these days.
Maybe I should go on a proper bender as advocated in 'The decadent
handbook for the modern libertine' which I'm enjoying and cringing at
in equal measure.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Decadent-Ha...id=1163946417/ref=sr_11_1/203-2101929-5019101

Yes. There has to be somewhere for people who really don't want to
hear about it surely?

 

Jordan, definitely. And Dubai, as an ex-pat type.

Ali

 

I'll still be celebrating Yule (any excuse for a large fire really),
then going away on either the Friday or Saturday.

I refuse to celebrate consumerism.

 

As I said to steve, I'll be celebrating Yule, it's christmas I want to
avoid.

 

I didn't have to have anything chopped off though.

 

The cunts are playing christmas songs on the radio here already.

 

Be careful of posting links to websites that contain spelling or grammatical
errors with Sigvaldi around

"Hi there, I really think you should check your spellings on the Iceland
page.
The name of the mountain on page 2 is "Skarðsheiði" and it is Skardsheidi in
English.
The same with the site of the ancient parliament, it is not Pingievellir it
is "Þingvellir" or Thingvellir in English, the "Þ" letter is not the
equalient of the P. Seeing things like that on a web page such as yours is
deeply offending when it should be so easy to get these things right."

Sigvaldi.

 

Thanks for that, beautiful looking place, though you definitely need
to seek help for the airport problem..

 

If the northern lights are getting your vote, try the north of Finland.
They *don't* kill whales! Otherwise, Morocco has a civilised blend of
Arabic and European influences. I've had happy times in Casabalanca and
Rabat. Not been inland, but Marrakech might be a good alternative.

 

Why? I mean, just because you hear about it doesn't mean you have to
take part. If we follow that logic I'd also like to see football-free
areas, for example, especially during the world cup. I'm sure loads of
people have their pet hates but don't expect to be pandered to as
you're seeming to be wanting.

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Not to be pedantic or anything, but women aren't treated as "less than
men", they're treated differently. It's only in western cultures where
it may seem as though they're treated less.

I'd say the westernised ones.