Anna -> Denmark / Hrefna & Emma -> Sweden
[Photos taken 02 – 06 August 2025, posted online (hopefully) 06 September 2026. Yes, this entry is now over a year out of date. I suggest we all just deal with it, take a deep breath, and continue onwards. Today the weather is gorgeous, the sun is blazing, and the sky is blue. I’ve just returned from fulfilling a bizarre bucket list item: sleeping alone in a tent in near-freezing calm weather, all bundled up, sort of like the babies in their wagons in Iceland. It was… interesting!]
In Iceland, if you want to officially call yourself an “engineer” you have to finish a Masters degree in engineering. Perhaps because of that, and perhaps because of why not? (there’s no tuition!), Anna and her boyfriend decided to go finish their respective Masters degrees in Denmark’s DTU.
These days, young folks often get accompanied by their parents when resettling abroad, and since Anna’s “in-laws” had previously lived in Denmark for years, they took the first shift, and we the second. Complicating matters was Bjarki needing to stay in Iceland well into August to take final exams to finish his summer-school courses, so our August travels became a big jigsaw puzzle.
After much hmmm-ing and huh-ing, eventually we settled on Anna et al flying to Copenhagen to start getting settled in, and on the same day Emma and I would fly to Stockholm to go visit my brother et al over there. Emma and I would then take the train (!) to Copenhagen, get a rental car, check into an Airbnb, and then commence shopping excursions. Once Bjarki’s exams were all done, him and Finnur would fly to Copenhagen, where we’d all have a few days of “vacation” before the four of us flew back to Iceland, just in time for regular life to hit us like a pile of bricks!
Saturday 02 August 2025
