Moving to Iceland

Sandymountgreen

25 meters from my door step is where I took this picture. Icelandic Independence day Monday, or national day as they call it. So parties take place from today in every town and village. In our village there is a "battle of the Sea monsters" so when they say theirs monsters in the water you've never ever seen a monster till you lived in the Fjörds in Iceland. I've seen "Monsters" here already several Greenland Sharks and 3 very large Orcas.

We are currently trailing in Gas mains and pipe bursting and soil testing, in 8 weeks we will be steering a 489km pipeline in the Norwegian sea bridging off into the Arctic ocean and running into north east Iceland to eventually pass through the country to Greenland.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

greasepalm

That is some view to take in for sure and hope your settling in well in your new life over there.

coleen

well done I’m glad it is going well for you. As well as saving money you could use any spare time to develop a new hobby which would be good for you. Also things like meditation is great to help with the mind. I think you will learn a lot about yourself in Iceland especially in winter time. Good luck with it all.

Sandymountgreen

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Hey Coleen thank you so much really is going well. We are very much so accepted into our community here. Nobody really speaks Icelandic to each other only really the 55 and above bracket. Shops, bars, restaurants all converse in Americanised English.

The place is a little piece of magic the town I'm based in there is only a few hundred in the entire town. I'm the closest town to the Fjords opening out to the Faroe Islands. I'm doing night and day shifts at the minute. I'm planning a year out here, accomodation and food is covered everyday I've spent 27 euro in 2 the last week. Literally nothing to spend on so if I can't buy a home with less then 50k owed on it when I'm home I've failed here hahah.

Sandymountgreen

A little bit of iceland

greasepalm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122289126#Comment_122289126

Ah central heating switched on

wildwillow

I'm enjoying reading your descriptions. Well done for making the move. Looking forward to future updates. Just don't work yourself too hard.

Sandymountgreen

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This is one Geo Thermal I won't be dipping hahaha. Thank god flow has stopped we are just waiting it to rock up now. It's safe to walk at the moment. But we got some news in the ground that Katla has started to rise and give activity this is worrying. As if Katla being one of the largest goes off the Largest Öræfajökull would inevitably go off and this is an entire glacier. 100km of an opening it would potentially finish Iceland and a lot of Europe.

To speak to locals regards there outlook on volcanos alot of them just seen it as inevitable the country will become lil more then a rock. They say what is in Yellowstone this super volcano, well what is under the icecaps and glacier in Iceland is twice the size and would potentially life changing consequences for the world. Here is the mouth of another visible from Reykjavik domestic to Egilsstadir airport last week.

Sandymountgreen

Definitely need to mind myself this winter kids come out for 3 weeks next week can't wait to hug them and spend my time with them.

WishUWereHere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122289525#Comment_122289525

best of luck and enjoy Your Children.

Sandymountgreen

Little update not of Iceland but of my housing situation back in Ireland.