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Sour Grapes: Cash Cows And Vulgar Words
Most awesome letters Dear Grapevine So here it is – just came home from our fourth trip but possibly last trip to Iceland – saved the Grapevine to read at home and after reading ‘Highway Robbery’ I feel compelled to write about…
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Sour Grapes: Parking Fees And Fines
This issue’s most awesome letter! Just a few thoughts from your recent article in Grapevine on car parking charges in your country…..as from a long time motoring correspondent for the London offices of Associated Newspapers and a car visitor to your country…
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Reader’s Letter: Angry Anna And Reykjavik’s Icy Pavements
Dear Grapevine, The weather has been very nice here in Reykjavík lately, the sun is shining and so on, but still there is something I can’t stop thinking about and have to share with someone publicly. It’s about the ice on the…
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Reader’s Letters: Low Key Music Nights In Reykjavík
Hi there, Love your blog. Iceland has intrigued me for years. I am a fan of so many Icelandic artists from Of Monsters of Men (sic) to Ólafur Arnalds. I actually photographed OMOM and Kiasmos live shows here in Melbourne Australia a…
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Readers Write: Australian Seeks Beautiful Artists
Hi there, Love your blog. Iceland has intrigued me for years. I am a fan of so many Icelandic artists from Of Monsters of Men (sic) to Ólafur Arnalds. I actually photographed OMOM and Kiasmos live shows here in Melbourne Australia a…
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A Letter To Capitalism
Dear Capitalism! I know you want me and other able adults to work. We each need to contribute to maintain the system you, with the help of your henchmen (read: those in power for the past 200-ish years), have bestowed upon us.…
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Reader Letters: An American Reader Returns After 15 Years
Dear Grapevine, I visited your lovely island back in ’99 and there weren’t that many menus in English, let alone shopkeepers who were willing to engage in my native tongue of English, whether they spoke it or not. I found it interesting…
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Sour Grapes & Stuff: Issue 2, 2016
Say your piece, voice your opinion, send your letters to: letters@grapevine.is. — This issue’s most awesome letter! — Just returned from a weekend in Reykjavik. Amazing snow covered lava landscapes, geysers, iced over Gullfoss, Hekla concert hall ,Northern Lights blah blah blah.…
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Letters-head: The January Issue’s Letter Page
Say your piece, voice your opinion, send your letters to: letters@grapevine.is. — This issue’s most awesome letter! Hello My name is Julian Fox and I am 12 years old, in the 6th grade. I live on Cape Cod in the state of…
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Sour Grapes & Stuff: Issue 18, 2015
Say your piece, voice your opinion, send your letters to: letters@grapevine.is. — This issue’s most awesome letter! Góðann Daginn. I am not sure whether to write you in Icelandic or English, so for the comfort of my wife I will stick to…
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Your Amazing Letters, We’ve Been Getting Them!
Say your piece, voice your opinion, send your letters to: letters@grapevine.is — Most Awesome Letter of the Issue! Hello and hi there, I had the supreme pleasure of visiting your sunny (not quite in temperature but certainly in disposition) shores the other…
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Sour Grapes & Stuff: Issue 13, 2015
Say your piece, voice your opinion, send your letters to: letters@grapevine.is –––––––––– Dear team at grapevine, First of all having a source of information about ones travel destination is a relief and an eye opener for all the hidden treasures of the host…
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Sour Grapes & Stuff: Issue 12, 2015
Say your piece, voice your opinion, send your letters to: letters@grapevine.is –––––––––– On Aug 12, 2015, at 8:58 PM, Ana Maria wrote: Hi! I’m a freelance journalist and I would like to do a story for the british press about the baby seal…
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Sour Grapes & Stuff: Issue 10, 2015
Most Awesome Letter Of The Issue! Hi Grapevine It’s a bit of a long shot, but I wonder if you can help me? I’m an English drummer/composer staying in Reykjavik between July 25th and Sept 21st. I’m coming out to try and…
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Sour Grapes & Stuff: Issue 6, 2015
Say your piece, voice your opinion, send your letters to: letters@grapevine.is — Most Awesome Letter of the Issue! Firstly, thanks for sending me your very informative and entertaining online newsletter. Secondly, I just did the math and calculated that your minimum wage…
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Sour Grapes & Stuff: Issue 5, 2015
Say your piece, voice your opinion, send your letters to: letters@grapevine.is — I WAS STATIONED IN ICELAND FROM ’67-’69. I ENJOYED EATING AT A REYKJAVIK RESTAURANT BY THE NAME OF HRESSINGAR SKAULIN. I THINK THAT IT WAS ON HAFNARSTRAITI.. IS IT STILL…
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Sour Grapes & Stuff: Issue 3, 2015
Say your piece, voice your opinion, send your letters to: letters@grapevine.is The Loveliest Letter! To the editor of the REYKJAVIC GRAPEVINE. Dear sir or madam would you be kind enough to publish an email letter of mine in your journal. I am…
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Sour Grapes & Stuff: Issue 17, 2014
Say your piece, voice your opinion, send your letters to letters@grapevine.is Most Awesome Letter of the Issue: When I read the Reykjavík Grapevine’s article Closed Doors, Empty Stomach, Desperate Measures about a Jewish-Iraqi refugee seeking asylum in Iceland after having hard time…
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Sour Grapes & Stuff: Issue 16, 2014
Say your piece, voice your opinion, send your letters to letters@grapevine.is Most Awesome Letter of the Issue: Dear grapevine, I was reading the article ‘Americans Love Iceland’ by Teresa Bergen (Issue 15/2014), and found myself incensed by the account of american travel…
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Sour Grapes & Stuff: Issue 15, 2014
Say your piece, voice your opinion, send your letters to letters@grapevine.is Most Awesome Letter of the Issue Hello The Reykjavik Grapevine Editor, I just saw a Facebook post on Ban Thai review. Interesting review I must say although I wish I could…
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Sour grapes & stuff: Issue 12, 2014
Say your piece, voice your opinion, send your letters to letters@grapevine.is Most Awesome Letter of the Issue ELVES! The headlines said the Iceland elves Played a big role in where they delved Putting a road where there was none Would surely please…
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Sour Grapes & Stuff: Issue 11, 2014
SOUR GRAPES!!! We stopped in Við Höfnina today for the lunch buffet. We were told that it cost 1690 ISK. A little pricey, but my husband had it anyway. I did not as I did not want to pay that much. My…
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“The Fag-End Of Civilization”
It is no secret that the village of Reykjavík was not only a tiny place in the eyes of 19th century tourists in Iceland but also a “filthy” and “desolate” shantytown. Iceland was a poor and isolated country back then. By 1900…