Fall is here in London. I don't mind. An excuse to drink even more amount of tea.

These are pics from august in Iceland.

I don't see my friend Kaja very often since she has been living in Denmark for so many years and now I live in London. So we were really happy to both be in Iceland at the same time this august and have the chance to go for a small trip to Bugða together to simply do cozy country things. I'm pretty sure we are both masters of doing cozy things. We of course took Ronja with us since according to doggy law you can't go to the country side and leave your dog behind. 

Soon after we arrived we went berry picking around the cabin. Ronja showed her extreme berry picking skills and her lack of putting-berry's-in-the-box...skills. We made sweet potato soup in the evening, watched a bad romantic comedy, drank tea with arctic thyme and made breakfast smoothie the morning after from our freshly picked berry's. I miss you Kaja!

More Iceland. I miss it already. Also, as you see, my dog can walk on water.

In London it's raining and grey but we still had a nice day at lovely Broadway market with Helga.

The flower is the national flower of Iceland after it's leaves have gone. It's called Holtasóley. I might like it more like this.

Constantly listening to this woman, whom Snorri introduced me to.

 Three different shots of my sister. I miss her already. So I'm back in London, reunited with my boyfriend and my flatmates AND our new cat, Bingo! Reunited and it feels so good. But London is grey, wet and it feels like fall is here already. I like fall so it's fine.

My camera is being repaired so I'll keep posting photos from Iceland which I took on my mother's camera.

Trash by the shore. Some people might think this is all very disgusting but I like these pictures. The colors, neutral with a pop of orange and teal and the rugged worn out feel of these things that have been bathing in the sea for some time. 

Some Icelandic-ness. 

Turns out you can't take ugly photos when the weather is this beautiful in Iceland. These are from my first weekend in august when I had spent the night before attending a wonderful wedding with my boyfriend and the day after we drove to Bugða, my parent's country cabin. This type of fog which somehow lays on the ground is called dalalæða in Icelandic, don't know the word for it in english although they probably have one. Anyway it decorated the landscape in the night around ten o'clock and I think I've never cursed my self as much for not having a working camera. I decided to take my phone out just to be able to capture the beauty of it at least a little bit.

I've been working a lot since I arrived but now I have some time to enjoy my country, meet some friends and relax a bit before I head back to London in the beginning of september. Hopefully I can show you some more Iceland pics soon.

I'm a bad blogger. No posting in nine days. Been busy enjoying my home country and also trying to spend as much time with Snorri who left for London today. My activities in the last few days have included going to a wonderful wedding in the countryside, frolicking in the sun with some of my besties, working for my in laws, hugging my family and walking my dog. Also worrying about all my friends in London with all the madness that has been going on. Feeling sad about the people affected by it and also a bit for the people causing it.

Here are some more Brighton pics since my camera is broken and I haven't been able to take any pictures in Iceland yet. Which is beyond horrible for me and I will try and get my hands on an old film camera just so I can snap away when I need to.

More seagulls and some photos from the beach in Brighton which I visited on a windy sunday with my friends recently. I borrowed my friend's Svala's camera and seeing the results makes me want to shoot in film much more. It really has much better quality than my small compact (broken) digital one. 

ps. Mmm! Oyster!

There's something about seagulls that I find really beautiful and funny at the same time. But only when I try and ignore the predator side of them. 

Today is saturday. Usually I would go out and not think about work but I have many things to make before I go to Iceland in a few days. Yes Iceland! I've been feeling terribly homesick so I decided to go for a whole month. Going to try to work as much as I can, save up some money but most importantly to spend time in the countryside and meet my friends, hang out with my dog and family, eat fish fish fish and go swimming countless times, go to two weddings, see my boyfriend's release concert, meet the beautiful tiny Óli and hopefully see two of my best friends newborn babies! Please both be born before I go back to London! Crossing fingers. 

My sunday activities include: walking along canals admiring fancy boats, looking for ducklings and stalking old people doing their thing on their balconies. I know the last photo is not the most beautiful one since my camera can't really handle much zoom but how cute are they?! I especially like the one knitting with a whole audience of garden gnomes watching her. 

Even though it wasn't really warm enough for sunbathing we did go to the beach on our trip. In Calais just before we took the ferry back to Dover. The best thing in my opinion about going to the beach when it's kind of cold and in this case, really windy, is the lack of people. The empty open space (and the wonderful smell of sea!) is so good for clearing your mind. Almost therapeutic. 

Ps. My heart is with the people of Norway after the horrible tragic events of yesterday. I'm lost for words.