Hvalfjörður, not just a meeting place for shipping convoys

[selleri]

Went on a road trip today to check out viable flying spots along a part of the old highway #1 that got redunant when we made a small hole under the ocean.
Lot of nice places there that will be flown at a later date when the wind is blowing at them but as luck would have it we managed to check out a place we've
had our eyes on for some time now and the wind was blowing in the right direction for that site!

Suffice to say the conditions there are terrific with a nice large farmland for landing.

We'll undoubtedly be back with something larger!   :?:









 

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[Happy Days]

Hey Sverrir, looks like you had a very fruitful journey.

Love the landing zone,.....lots & lots of long soft grasses. I bet even I could land a model on that stuff without damaging it. And a sea facing ridge, endless laminar air flow,....super. I'll have to add Hvalfjörður to my bucket list of places to fly. (God only knows how to pronounce it though :roll: )

Keith.

[Fred]

Fantastic Sverrir!  :clap:  :clap:
Some really nice photos, and what's look like a great slope find too!  :clap:

[selleri]

Thanks!

Keith I'll get you started on some words next time we meet up.  

[selleri]

Check this out until then Keith!   :wink:

http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/heres-a-list-english-words-were-adopted-icelandic

[Happy Days]

Yea, I didn't know so many words came from our Icelandic /Norse cousins. In fact I don't think English is actually a single language, but a compilation of other peoples languages. Apart from Norse/ Icelandic there is loads of French, Latin, German, Urdu, Greek, Arabic,.....the list goes on and on.

Perhaps that's why English is so popular globally, everyone can recognize some words as their own!  :lol:

Keith

ps I still can't pronounce Hvalfjörður  :?:

[mick a]

also just for info it looks a bit like hungarian , which derives from finish
can you understand hungarian selleri

[selleri]

Nobody understand Finnish, not even the Finns themselfs!  :lol:

But the answear is most likely no, Finnish and Hungarian are Uralic (along with Estonian) while Icelandic is a North Germanic language.
I can't understand anything a Finn says except maybe Nokia, though it's probably called something like Hääkkeelllipppennenenenesat in their native tounge!   :wink:

[mick a]

hahahahaa
so true same with hungarian
convinced they make it up when im around