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LoppyLovesIceland
Iceland
Приєднався 2 лип 2018
British expat living in Iceland
British Author and Business Owner Living in Selfoss - Interviews with the Innlendingar Episode 2
Today I am talking to Becca from the UK, she now lives in Selfoss and runs her own business called The Grumpy Whale. She has also written and illustrated a children's book based on Icelandic folklore.
You can find Becca here:
thegrumpywhale.com/
thegrumpywhaleiceland
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You can buy Becca's book on Amazon here: www.amazon.com/dp/9935253953/ref=nosim?tag=loppylovesice-20
(if you order through my affiliate link I may get a small commission from Amazon)
You can now support me and buy me a coffee if you'd like to:
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You can find Becca here:
thegrumpywhale.com/
thegrumpywhaleiceland
thegrumpywhale/
You can buy Becca's book on Amazon here: www.amazon.com/dp/9935253953/ref=nosim?tag=loppylovesice-20
(if you order through my affiliate link I may get a small commission from Amazon)
You can now support me and buy me a coffee if you'd like to:
ko-fi.com/loppyloves
loppyloves
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From Florida to East Iceland - Interviews with the Innlendingar Episode 1
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This is the start of a brand new series; Interviews with the Innlendingar! Today I am talking to Lindsey from Florida, she now lives in a tiny village called Borgarfjörður Eystri. You can now support me and buy me a coffee if you'd like to: ko-fi.com/loppyloves loppyloves loppyloves linktr.ee/endurlifgajewellery www.loppyloves.com
Minilik restaurant Iceland - My Favourite Dinner Place
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Minilik Ethiopian Restaurant has long been my all time favourite restaurant in Iceland. It's in the town of Flúðir in the South, it's the same town where the famous Secret Lagoon is. I went to the restaurant last week and decided to make a video about it. This video was not filmed in collaboration with the restaurant. I paid for my own meal, the owners do not know I made this video, and everyth...
Selfoss, Iceland - Woodland walk | August 2024
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Another walking tour of Selfoss, this time walking through a little woodland. You can now support me and buy me a coffee if you'd like to: ko-fi.com/loppyloves loppyloves loppyloves linktr.ee/endurlifgajewellery www.loppyloves.com
Icelandic supermarket haul | Krónan frozen food 2024
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I decided to film my recent haul at Krónan supermarket here in Iceland. Krónan is my favourite supermarket here and I bought a lot of frozen food this time. #iceland You can now support me and buy me a coffee if you'd like to: ko-fi.com/loppyloves loppyloves loppyloves linktr.ee/endurlifgajewellery www.loppyloves.com
Icelandic supermarket haul | Bónus frozen food 2024
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Icelandic supermarket haul | Bónus frozen food 2024
Selfoss, Iceland - Gimbal walking tour | May 2024
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Selfoss, Iceland - Gimbal walking tour | May 2024
Drive with me from Selfoss to Reykjavík | Driving tour Iceland
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Drive with me from Selfoss to Reykjavík | Driving tour Iceland
What I Spend in a Month Living in Iceland | 2024
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What I Spend in a Month Living in Iceland | 2024
Selfoss, Iceland - Gimbal walking tour | February
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Selfoss, Iceland - Gimbal walking tour | February
British People Attempt to Pronounce Icelandic Eruption Site
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British People Attempt to Pronounce Icelandic Eruption Site
Happy New Year 2024! Review of the year and goal setting
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Happy New Year 2024! Review of the year and goal setting
I took the Icelandic citizenship exam
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I took the Icelandic citizenship exam
Update on the Grindavík situation 🇮🇸
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Update on the Grindavík situation 🇮🇸
The Icelandic Dracula Story That You've Never Heard Of ┃ Powers of Darkness┃ Makt Myrkranna
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The Icelandic Dracula Story That You've Never Heard Of ┃ Powers of Darkness┃ Makt Myrkranna
Iceland women's strike 2023 - A day in the life vlog
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Iceland women's strike 2023 - A day in the life vlog
Another pleasant and informative interview. Thank you. Have you decided not to have each interviewee leave a question for the next person, or is that maybe just done offline?
@timpointing glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching Yes, the eurovision question was left from the person interviewed before 🙂 The question left by the previous guest are answered at the end of each interview and the interviewee sends me a message after recording with the question that they want to leave for the next person. The videos are not uploaded in the order of when the interviews took place to maintain anonymity of who asked which question, hope that helps!
Each time I plan a trip to Iceland some big problem arises. Iceland therefore doesn't exist.
@theplayers7434 it's true, Iceland doesn't exist
@LoppyLoves 😂 sort of The Truman Show
Iceland is definitely never going to be the country for me. Thank you for this information.
I have just thought about this I have seen photographs of Briard dogs living in Iceland, however since they are guardian/herding breed,they probably live in the country.
Thanks for watching!
You may be interested in The Undead by Joel H Emerson who edited the original Dracula with four original characters that were omitted from the finished version, Kate Reed, Detective Cotford, artist Francis Aytown and reporter and occult investigator Alfred Singleton, which I found very interesting.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll look into this 🙂
So helpful. I am finishing Icelandic 4 and I am super nervous in anticipation of my exam. Listening to you made me more at ease, because I could imagine going through the test and how everything will look like. Thanks for posting this video!
@Antishy good luck in the exam! With Icelandic 4 I'm sure you'll have no problem passing 😁
I think of food as an expensive souvenir in Iceland.
Nice! thane thanks!
Thanks for watching!
You would be worth crossing oceans of time for... skol.
As promised (reposted from an other channel): If you have read Dracula by Bram Stoker, I would suggest that you check out the newly discovered swedish version, published as a serial in Sweden in 1899-1900. It's an interesting read, and differs a lot from the traditional Stoker's version. In 2017 a version of Dracula, Makt myrkranna / Powers of Darkness : Lost Version of Dracula was discovered in Iceland (published 1900-1901). It was much shorter than Stoker's. Swedish publisher Rickard Berghorn recognized the title, and decided to do some serious research about it. He met with success. It turned out that in 1899-1900 there was published (in swedish) a serial, Mörkrets makter (Powers of Darkness), which was almost twice as long as the 1897 Stoker's Dracula. This was all in all a novel in its own right, with Count Draculitz scheming to take over the world. The novel differs a lot from the Stoker version. Who is responsible for that version/translation is still much of an open question, as far as I understand. The title was known since earlier, but to react to it, find the text, and show that it was so big, and so different, was a great scoop for Mr Berghorn and his friends. The book is published in swedish through Mr Berghorn's imprint Aleph Bokförlag, and in english through his imprint Timaios Press. [This english translation is also published by Centipede Press, in August 2022.)] cheers / CS
Thank you! I'll definitely try to find a copy!
Beautiful idea Lauren, I will see you soon. Cheers!
Thank you 😊
Love it! Excellent and very informative. Also: I love liquorice all sorts, but not the pure liquorice pieces; I now know who to give them to!
Glad you liked it! I've enjoyed these interviews as I get a lot from them too 🙂
I want to ask you a question, can I follow you on instagram,I click your story link from there
Yes you can follow me on instagram 😊
@@LoppyLoves I’ve sent you a message,I’ve followed before also …I’ll appreciate your response
Nice footage, we hyperlapsed our drives last year we didi the 1 and other areas
@@Earl_Robinson_UK thank you, I'll have a look at some of your videos 🙂
This reminds me of places that my heart loves, where the true muisc is the sounds of the winds and water.
You are doing a very good job of telling the story! But perhaps the sleepwalking was part of her wanting the check up on daddy, in case he's do out again, or coming for her!
@@PaulHillery Thank you 🙂 Oh yes, that's a great theory!
I wonder of you have ever discovered a band that has some very clever lyrics, and have first class songs you could call Gothic, (but they also, have a couple that could be called sci-fi.) This band is The Gathering. And they have a song best viewd on their live 2005 concert video on youTube. It's called Rescue Me. It took me a couple times to realise it is about a women being buried alive. Another is from a studio recording never performed live, as far as I can tell. It is Now Your Travels Are Over.' And there's Forgotten Reprise,. But this band is much more than '90s goth. They - in the hands of their singer/song-writer Anneke van Giersbergen adressed social issue and also personal events in the lives of their generation. Unabashedly. Highly recommended! The youtubed concerts from 2007 & 2005 are classic.
I haven't listened to them before but I'll have a listen, thanks for the recommendation!
Do you go back to read new comments on your older videos?
Yes, if I get notifications about them I try to respond or react to every comment 😊
My husband and I are dressing as Vlad Dracul and Mina for our Victorian Halloween party and I am so excited. My brother-in-law has us wanting to take a cruise to Iceland. 2 random facts that drew me to this channel and video. lol. Which is very well done, haha vintage fan fic, love it. ThoughI love Dracula the book, I did love Renfield and Mina from the 1931 film, and I really loved the past life connection between Vlad and Mina in the Bram Stoker Dracula film. Bella L
I love that both of those things brought you here 😊 Your Halloween costumes sound great! Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching
Slartibartfast!!!! 😂
That's my favourite 😂
Sounds great!
It's a brilliant restaurant!
I can't hear the name Wilma without picturing The Flintstones.
Same here! 😂
It's always nice to recommend and also give praise to a good place and especially a good place to eat. Being vegetarian too it's always good to know you have more than just one option as in this day and age (unlike when I was younger) there are so many vegetarian dishes out there with flavour and no one should have to settle for a cheese salad, vegetable lasagne or mushroom stroganoff!! Hope your positive review brings new custom to the place. Best Wishes.
Yes I love it when there's more than one option, here a lot of places just offer a veggie burger which gets boring very quickly!
Sounds like BS of a different nature, right? 😉
It’s fiction, sweetie. No need to get upset.
@@tananario23 Oh dear. Yet another nitwit who thinks an opinion other than joyous praise is an indication of anger.
It is always greener on the far side of the mountain...till you go there, I am from Ireland and I came to Australia to live ......sunshine and all that stuff, the biggest mistake of my life ( 40. c in summer and 5 thousand dollars house taxes per year and 100s of other reasons you only find out as an expat living away from your culture and family) Europe is a great place and close to Home... being isolated and far from home...never again.
Maybe the manuscript they sent the guy to translate was an accidental early draft of Dracula. It would explain why he might not have liked Dracula.
That's a good theory!
Great video and story, how did you find immigrating to Iceland? I'm a nurse, but I don't think my qualification transfers there
Thank you 😊 for me it wasn't so difficult because I was still an EU citizen at the time. I've heard it's difficult for nurses to get their qualifications transferred over but it's worth a try! I believe that there is a Facebook group for foreign nurses in Iceland
@@LoppyLoves thanks, I'll look at it. Yeah the UK's nurse training system doesn't often transfer to other European countries unfortunately
@@DK-cy5mt that's a shame, my British qualifications in the jewellery industry also don't transfer here unfortunately. I do believe there are a couple of British nurses here, they might've transferred everything before Brexit or maybe took further education here
@@LoppyLoves it's the adult nursing qualification that tends to transfer, mental health and developmental disability nurses often struggle
Too many skulls. If we are drawn to death we get death in return. I say that as a long-time horror aficionado and one-time Catholic. Get out of whatever death cult you are in (not speaking to you personally, just to myself and everyone else.) A lifelong fascination with horror at its darker levels will lead to bodily and spiritual ruin. I can say, having lived most of my life and certainly nearer my end than my beginning.
Could they have been hinting at child abuse? Lucy's father is promiscuous and little Lucy is often found out of her bedroom. Dad says, "Oh, she was sleep walking".
@@LorettaBurrow oh that's a very interesting point of view, I never would've thought of that but it makes sense!
Sick, but it makes sense.
How I can contact you by WhatsApp and?
@ዕውትኣብሂወት I do not give out my WhatsApp details but you are welcome to contact me via instagram @loppyloves, or through my Facebook page which is also LoppyLoves
@LoppyLoves Thanks you I have been wrote you by Instagram already! How can I travel to iceland from European 🇪🇺
@ዕውትኣብሂወት that depends where in Europe your travelling from, search for flights. Or if you're coming from Denmark you can take the ferry
I love icland
As iam from a tropical country I don't know much about winter precautions to take during sight-seeing like lotions to apply especially for january winter iceland.
Wear lots of warm layers! And bring a good skin moisturiser. The biggest precaution I'd recommend is not driving in these conditions if you aren't used to them
@@LoppyLoves thanks for the tips
Sounds like the book is about … plagiarism? Copyright infringement?
The more I think about it the “niece” of Dracula sound a lot like the sister in Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher.
Good observation!
Don't know what the legality was, but I'll bet this version was not reviewed and approved by the author or his publisher.
The way I understand it, the copyright laws of that time were very lax, or even nonexistent. cheers! / CS
There's also a Swedish version of this version of Dracula and it's much longer (both than the Icelandic version and the 'regular' one). It's suggested that the Icelandic version might be translated from the Swedish one and was not running as long (in a magazine) as the Swedish version.
It'd be interesting to read that one too
I have this Swedish version and it is longer than the Icelandic version. Haven´t read it yet.
The swedish version is definitely worthwhile to read and compare to Stoker's own version. It is published in swedish by Aleph Bokförlag, and in english by Alephs imprint Timaios Press. cheers! / CS
I'll repost (as OP post) what I said in another YT channel about this. Back in a moment. Slither, slither...
It does sound like the 'translator' ran out of steam with his re-write and dashed off the ending in a hurry.
Yes I think so too, apparently people had lost interest in the weekly column so he needed to wrap it up quickly
Omg such expensive in india with the amount you are spending for a month one poor family can spend for one or two years in small towns.
That a big difference in price! Iceland is a very expensive country
Another unique video
Thanks for watching!
Most useful video for budget backpackers
Useful information
Thanks for watching 😊
Butterfly and frog looks amazing, another unique video with unique materials to make jewellery 🎉🎉
Thank you 😊
Hai suggest shops selling 1 dollar fridge magnet/keychain
@@sattursenthil I'm not sure if you'll find any that cheap in Iceland, but you can get cheap magnets and keyring in most of the souvenir shops
Thanks for the reply, iam binge watching your videos now,as iam planning to visit there in january. Each of your videos are very unique. Like gem collection museums,your budget food video, vegan restaurant video,things not to do etc.I really love them .keep doing your good work.will appreciate if you do video about budget tours to main attractions like golden circle, ice caving.
@sattursenthil thank you so much for such a lovely comment ❤️ I'm glad that you're enjoying my videos! That's a really good idea and I'll look into this for you 😊