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Is that the bus to RTXY_DG%;)FCKNGC?

Posted by Adrian A. Baumann on 15 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Bzzzt - wrong!, Travels, Huh?

RTXY_DG

Good thing I was flying out of Dublin Airport on August 3rd… taking the bus would have been slightly confusing. However, I find it hard to believe that the letters “FCKNG” should appear anywhere randomly, especially preceded by a smilie ;). Who knows… some bored sign technician, maybe?

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Word of the day: Jökulhlaup!

Posted by Adrian A. Baumann on 15 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Travels

Myrdalsjökull
This picture shows — obviously — a glacier. What’s not so obvious is, that this glacier, like so many in Iceland, has an active volcano underneath it. This leads to accumulation of large amounts of meltwater under the glacier, which spills over and floods a large area of the southern coast every couple of years in a Jökulhlaup. The Lonely Planet guide to Iceland says that it was a couple of million cubic litres (sic!) in 1996… Wow… a couple of million m9 of water! That’s a lot!

Coincidentially, what exactly I was suffering from when I drove past there and thought to myself “Who had the stupid idea of putting the glacier on top of a volcano anyway?”, I don’t recall. I hadn’t even had Hákarl that day…

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