tsiklonaut
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Icelandic infrascape.
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Icelandic infrascape.
zerobuttons
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Your pictures are very inspiring, sir.
You link to blogspot.dk. Do you have Danish roots?
You link to blogspot.dk. Do you have Danish roots?
tsiklonaut
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Cheers!
It's Google tricking you - I've felt the same clicking on various blogspot links thinking they have some sort of Estonian link. But in reality Google just routes the site to your local servers to make it faster.
That being said I think many Estonians do have Danish roots from the Duchy times 🙂
Regards,
Margus
zerobuttons
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I didn´t know that about blogspot - I haven´t looked up blogspot links before, that weren´t obviously Danish.....
Yes, there must have been some mingling going on back in those days. Maybe even before, when Scandinavians travelled East, with looting or trading in mind, depending on the mood.
Yes, there must have been some mingling going on back in those days. Maybe even before, when Scandinavians travelled East, with looting or trading in mind, depending on the mood.
lynnb
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Wonderful photos and trip Margus, thanks so much for sharing them with us. I've enjoyed looking through them immensely. Congratulations also on your choice of film and formats, the results speak for themselves!
kind regards,
kind regards,
tsiklonaut
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Thank you, Lynn!
tsiklonaut
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As always, we prefer to be off the beaten track - explore the rarely seen sights on those rough Icelandic trails.
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Jerevan
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I guess it depends on the terrain, but on a given day, how far would you travel?
Sometimes, especially on foot, I tend to measure the hours rather than actual distance. It gets me into a journeying mood - I am were I am and that's it.
And as for the danish roots ... Taani Linn. 🙂
Sometimes, especially on foot, I tend to measure the hours rather than actual distance. It gets me into a journeying mood - I am were I am and that's it.
And as for the danish roots ... Taani Linn. 🙂
tsiklonaut
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We really travel by intution, no agendas or time tables. No egos (no "I am" or "that's it" attitude) or prejustice - for us it's only pure respect to the place and people we are surrounded with. We are really humble people and go as life directs us so to speak. Some days it's 0 kilometers (when we like the place), other time it's 500 km (when transiting over less interesting area). On rough trails it's very hard to collect up the mileage and there's no point either - lots to see! I think our average was something like 150-250 km per full riding day for Iceland. We met people who do more on bicycles then we on motorcycles, not sure how much they see and experience the scenery though...
Yep, Tallinn. Also what should sound familiar to you is "Såg" (saag) and "Hyvel" (höövel) we have in Estonian language 😉
Long story short: a country with a very small sustained population has been very easy to occupy or conquer by the big empires surrounding us throughout the history.
Margus
Santtu Määttänen
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Finno-Ugric people have been in "good" position during the history. Fighting off Vikings, Slavics, christianity in both orthodox as well as catholic forms. Being invaded, winning back independence, being destroyed and some surviving by very small margins. Some do fine (Finnish, Eesti, Hungarian) and some have some hope still (Sami, Mari, Komi and Samojed to mention few).
We're tough people living in difficult places, climate wise as well as politically.
Which is actually why I love Iceland so much. Iceland, Faroe Islands, Svalbard, etc. are places where people have had to grow intertwined with their surroundings to survive. There's no shortcuts to happiness there. And people seem more open, creative and loving then in most other places I've been 🙂 And they seem to have quit some characteristics common with us finno-ugric people 🙂 They might have been Vikings, but they settled in most unlikely of places and survived. Bit like us, surviving in the crushing embrace of russia, scandinavian kingdoms and western civilizations. Still clinging on what is at it's core, us. Enjoying our saunas, forests, lakes and winters.
We're tough people living in difficult places, climate wise as well as politically.
Which is actually why I love Iceland so much. Iceland, Faroe Islands, Svalbard, etc. are places where people have had to grow intertwined with their surroundings to survive. There's no shortcuts to happiness there. And people seem more open, creative and loving then in most other places I've been 🙂 And they seem to have quit some characteristics common with us finno-ugric people 🙂 They might have been Vikings, but they settled in most unlikely of places and survived. Bit like us, surviving in the crushing embrace of russia, scandinavian kingdoms and western civilizations. Still clinging on what is at it's core, us. Enjoying our saunas, forests, lakes and winters.
tsiklonaut
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It was then the right time to call it quits and head back to the ferry from Seydisfjörður, feeling satisfied and saying our goodbyes to Iceland!
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It was a long ferry ride back to the mainland of Europe.
alistair.o
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Thank you Margus (and wife) for an exceptionally beautiful view of a 'mysterious' island. Thoroughly enjoyed the script and pictures.
Glad you're with us here.
Regards.
Glad you're with us here.
Regards.
tsiklonaut
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Thank you for the kind words, Alistair!
Jerevan
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Just how I meant it too, what I wrote sounded perhaps a bit forced - on the contrary; just being in the moment, everything else falling away.
Languages are crossroads and they tell their own story through the vocabulary. 🙂 I remember that my old professor mentioned that they did an excursion to Saaremaa in the early 90's, finding people who still knew a few swedish words.
tsiklonaut
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Yes, we also are a mix of many cultures and heritages. There are still some "domesticated" swedes in Noarootsi area, even the place names are in swedish origin.
