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Airwaves’23 – Day 2

| 03-Nov-2023 | Hosted a few friends at the apartment this morning for brunch of pastries, coffee, and of course, mimosas. It …

Airwaves’23 – Day 1

| 02-Nov-2023 | Lunched at Íslenski barinn. Many Icelandic specialities on the menu here, but it also has one of the best …

Reykjavík, you look marvelous!

| 01-Nov-2023 |  We’ve been to Iceland enough to know that the weather is fickle. The weather app shows sunny and clear, …

Airwaves is more than music

| 05-Nov-2022 | Another day with a light agenda. After coffee and crusty rolls with ham and cheese (natch), we kicked it …

Friday, Vacation Style

04-Nov-2022 | Woke up to another clear, sunny day here in Reykjavik. Breakfast pastry from nearby Braud & Co. – a must, every trip. …

Hello again, old friend

| 03-Nov-2022 | What is this craziness? Where am I? Did I really get on a plane and fly seven hours to …

Airwaves 2019 is a wrap

| 09-Nov-2019 | After a relatively early night (1am), we were out early by Airwaves standards this morning to meet our friend …

And then there was pyro

| 08-Nov-2019 | It’s almost 9am and I’m sitting in a dark apartment. It’s still dark outside too, and raining. If we …

Airwaves 2017 – Day 5

 | 05-Nov-2017 | Late night means late morning.  Jeff, Berto and I rolled out of the apartment around lunchtime headed for Noodle …

Airwaves 2017 – Day 4

| 04-Nov-2017 | How’d it get to be Day 4 already? Started our morning with what is now an Airwaves tradition: breakfast …

Airwaves 2017 – Day 3

| 03-Nov-2017 | Start my day with fresh, still-warm pastry from Braud & Co? Yes, please. Truth be told, I had crusty …

Airwaves 2017 – Day 2

 | 02-Nov-2017 | Lazy morning. We finally left the apartment around noon for lattés and some shopping before meeting up again at …

Airwaves 2017 Kicks Off

| 01-Nov-2017 |  I took advantage of light rail from downtown to SeaTac on Tuesday: quick and easy.  Met up with Jason …

The 411 on 101 Reykjavik

    So you want to know about visiting Reykjavik? It has changed a lot over the years with the increase in …

Airwaves Day 5

| 06-Nov-2016 | Finally got to bed around 3:00am so it was a late wake-up this morning. It was pouring rain so …

Airwaves Day 4

 | 05-Nov-2016 | Headed out to meet our friend Leana for breakfast at Cafe Paris. It’s always fun to get the local …

Airwaves Day 3

| 04-Nov-2016 | Technically one could say our day “started” around 4:30am with the arrest of some loud, drunk dude who’d been …

Airwaves Day 2

| 03-Nov-2016 | Went to bed around 1:45am and woke up at 6:00am to garbage day in the 101. Guh.  Managed another …

Airwaves Day 1

| 02-Nov-2016 |  First up today, the Reykjavik Music Walk – Airwaves Edition – with journalist/historian Arnar Eggert. We wandered around the city …

Happy Airwaves Eve!

| 01-Nov-2016 |  First, Happy Birthday Mom!! :-)So most of the day was consumed by travel, some of it unnecessarily, but I’ll …

Airwaves: The Finale!

|08-NOV-2015|  Final day of the festival – it always goes by so fast! Kicked around today, not too much going on in …

Look: it’s a Yeti!!

|07-NOV-2015|  Early night last night by Airwaves standards, and we all needed the sleep.  We woke up refreshed this morning and headed out …

All hail the OG rockers!

|05-NOV-2015| Got to bed at 2:30am but couldn’t sleep past 9am. We kicked around the apartment for a while listening to the …

Hello again, NASA!

|04-NOV-2015|  I baked a pumpkin spice cake this morning and delivered it to our friends at Lucky Records. Roamed town for a …