Saturday 8 - travel, baby
1. what is the furthest you've ever travelled from your home? Florida is probably the farthest I have gone from UK.2. everyone has a dream vacation ... what's yours? Florida / Florida / Florida. Once I pass my motorbike test I am dreaming of travelling Europe with my 2 sons.
3. where you live, is there a marked difference between the amount of daylight you see in the summer and winter? Yes, at the moment Winter is really depressing because I go to work in the dark and get back home in the dark.
4. what is the coldest temperature you've ever experienced? -24 C. You may be in Iceland but we have just come back from Lapland!!!!!!!!!!!! and yes we all saw Santa Claus.
5. i am used to a minimum of 50% humidity. i'm so dry up here in reykjavik, i am scratching like i've got fleas. what's your common humidity where you live? I am not really sure but it doesn't seem to be a problem in UK. I noticed it when we came to Florida though because it was a really sweaty heat there.
6. right now, all the news i get is about the serial killer in england. i feel so disconnected from the States. when was the last time you felt "disconnected" from home, and why did you feel that way? OK so guess what our main news is today?? No, not the serial prostitute killer but the fog that is grounding most of our flights out of UK. Maybe everyone is right when they say we are obsessed by the weather!
7. the coffee here is all instant, even at coffee shoppes. you have to go in to a really chic shoppe and pay about $7-8USD for a good cup of non-instant coffee. would you settle for instant, or are you a coffee-worshipper who would pay that much for a good cup? I love instant coffee, sad but true.
8. icelanders, though very nice once you get to talking to them, are really perfunctory. they would be considered rude in the U.S. and score REALLY low on the customer service side. they're not mean or rude or condescending, it's just that the 'niceties' we take for granted ("have a nice day" or "thank you!") are not very present here. when was the last time you experienced sub-par customer service? To be honest I can't remember. Lapland was brilliant for polite people and customer sevice as well.
PS. Did you meet anyone famous on your trip to Iceland? We had Sally Gunnell on our Lapland trip. The kids were very impressed!
posted by Frederick The Butler @ 5:35 pm
1 Comments:
frederick, glad you saw santa. i didn't watch TV, either, because it was either "everybody loves raymond," "the king of queens," or the serial killer coverage. no one famous, either. at least i don't think so.
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