The road was supper narrow and swerving would have either put me into the ocean or head on into their car. We jumped in, but left before it was filled, in fear of having to make someone else share that magical space. I lost ISK at the Bolungarvik swimming pool, but it was still worth it β their dry sauna is spa worthy.
We spent the rest of our Westfjords trip unable to leave Flateyri. Once an isolated, lonely little fishing village, an avalanche in nearly emptied the settlement. There was a roof, but no floor, and snow fell in through the glassless windows into the bedrooms downstairs. He bought it for kr. All this in a town of only a couple hundred people.
Since then, a few talented souls have made careers as players abroad. The best known footballers were arguably Gylfi Sigurdsson and Eidur Gudjohnsen until , but now a handful of faces from the national team have become international prodigies. Now, they have rewritten football history, becoming the smallest country to ever qualify for the world cup, and risen from being ranked rd to 22nd within FIFIA.
The World Cup hype started two years ago during the Euro qualification. We started by playing Portugal, Hungary and Austria. We tied Portugal and Hungary , but beat Austria to make it into the quarterfinals. The newscaster reporting on the Austria game nearly lost hist sanity and his voice and this youtube video is definitely worth listening to: it gives you a glimpse of what every Icelander was feeling in that moment.
Then we beat England , that video is also a must see another incredible victory, and France finally put out our unstoppable fire with a humbling loss. The World Cup in Russia crept up so slowly, but the hype never faded, and the planning and suspense was constant.
