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    Most Awesome Letter of the Issue Dear Jón Gnarr, Thank you for working so hard to make our city a great place to live in, while being a cool guy! As I’ve been following your work, you were stating a few times…

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    Most Awesome Letter of the Issue I am so irritated, furious, incensed, etc about something that I have to vent. I am a former employee of one of the aluminum factories and I feel they are really screwing people over that are…

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    MOST AWESOME LETTER OF THE ISSUE Dear editor, We are 25 sixth-grade students writing to you from the Quatre Vents Elementary School in Manlleu, a city located in Catalonia, Spain, about 70Km from Barcelona. Our class has students from Catalonia, other countries…

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    Most Awesome Letter of the Issue Hello: My name is Cindy Voss and I’m from Washington State.  My grandmother, Laufey Magnusdottir, was born in Reykavik in 1898.  She passed in 1986.  I am doing family history research and came across some photos…

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    Most Awesome Letter of the Issue Dear Grapevine I would like to respond to a complaint letter in your 12th edition regarding our Icelandic Puffin Eggs – Milk chocolate treats with a soft chewy liquorice centre. I am so sorry that Gina,…

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    Most Awesome Letter of the Issue Bjork 1. Bjork, you are protecting the «Pussy Riot» ? OK. Then you will haveto jump and shout at the altar of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, inthe mask … This is the most effective support…

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    Dear Grapevine, First of all, thanks for being an excellent read. Without wishing to make it sound likeexaggerated flattery, I am often quite impressed by the quality of the writing in most Grapevine articles, especially assuming the vehicular language is not the…

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    Most Awesome Letter of the Issue Góðan dag. Really enjoyed your latest issue on Greenland.  I was especially pleased to see an article on Ittoqqortoormiit, a place I’ve been very interested in for some time now but never hear anything about.  I’ve…

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    MOST AWESOME LETTER:  Hello all I do hope you are fine. I am addressing you after I read a news on your website about a camera lost and found in Iceland. My name is Alfredo, from Chile and in my last day…

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    Hi there. Thank you so much for your current issue, i got it yesterday and enjoyed reading it sitting in my little garden while drinking iced coffee and eating danish. I was a every Friday and Saturday sirkús girl and i loved…

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    MOST AWESOME LETTER: Dear Cod Wars, Are you familiar with the Icelandic phrase “farðu ekki að grenja”? Unfortunately it played on repeat in my head from around the middle of your piece “Icelanders Invade Your Personal Space” and all the way to…

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    MOST AWESOME LETTER: HI, I AM A NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERMAN AND TODAY MY GRANDDAUGHTER  AND I FOUND A LETTER  IN A BOTTLE  THAT WAS THROWN OVERBOARD OFF ICELAND ON NOVEMBER 19, 2009. MY GRANDDAUGHTER WOULD REALLY ,LIKE TO CONTACT THE LITTLE GIRL WHO…

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    MOST AWESOME LETTER: Hello guys, i was very glad to find your feature about rental market in Reykjavik (and capital area), since i was one of those in the search of the rental apartment. And because my search is over now, i…

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    MOST AWESOME LETTER: Dear Sir or Madam I want to make a complaint to the Icelandic tourist board, about a practice I encountered on my last visit whereby taxi drivers in Reykjavik start running the meter up early when they are called…

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    MOST AWESOME LETTER: Hello You wrote an article on ICY SPICY LEONCIE LIVE IN ICELAND in your last weeks grapevine. I absolutely hate the way you’ll wrote about me. “Peculiar and flamboyant character with the self coined moniker” Icy Spicy Leoncie?” Just…

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    MOST AWESOME LETTER: Dear Bart Cameron, I will attach “Laxness in Naples”. The old bard is still on the move. Best regards, Niels Hav http://www.othervoicespoetry.org/vol41/hav/bio.html Laxness in Naples In Naples I chanced upon Halldór Laxness.  It was strange, because he had died…

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    MOST AWESOME LETTER: Dear Grapevine,
 my name is Fabio, I’m from Italy. 

A few days ago I was in Reykjavik with Alina and Elena, two colleagues 
of mine. We are librarians and we were at the University of Reykjavik,
attending a workshop.

 Before…

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    I was wondering if anyone out there has noticed how piss-poor the health care is in this country?  I´m from the USA and I know that healthcare there is not perfect and as a result of frivolous lawsuits, in many times, much…

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    MOST AWESOME LETTER: to: the girl eds…. yer fussing about a asian tourist hotel in niceland? errrr,. iceland? Hotelling is a national dream there; well, past formenting the revoultion in the cafe. (managing it) empires forever, eh?. attached is a post you…

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    MOST AWESOME LETTER: Dear Grapevine, If someone told me six months ago that apartment-hunting in Reykjavík could come close to a hellish experience, I would have (politely) laughed in his/her face. After a few weeks of endless hours behind my computer looking…

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    MOST AWESOME LETTER: Iceland Express for a Day My mate Ari and I decided at 4:30am one Monday morning that instead of going for a night swim somewhere, we would jump on an Icebreaker fare to Gothenburg for 77GBP a pop. Now…

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    MOST AWESOME LETTER: Dear Grapevine, a word from the precarious position of an gourmet immigrant. Coming to Iceland I was prepared for trying some, lets say, unusual food, such as sheep face or cured shark, what I was not expecting is food…

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    MOST AWESOME LETTER: Hello (we would like to request that this letter be read with an Icelandic accent, it’s funnier that way). We love you guys. Ok so, we have a couple of ideas and warnings. Thing is, we were sitting on…