Today was Sailor's Day, A festival here in Iceland, to commend sailors for their hard work, this is officially one of the top 3 most metal festivals in the world, all of them being Icelandic.
Along with "Dagar myrkurs" or "the Days of Darkness",where we celebrate the darkness in the world, and everyone's dressed in full black, and you are not allowed to turn on any electric lights in your house for the whole week, this is in the darkest time of year.( this is only in eastern Iceland,which just happens to include my town).
LOL, Also a Testament CD
and the Þorri where we celebrate our viking heritage by feasting upon þorramatur , which includes Rotten shark, sour ram testicles and other similar treats.
On the sailors day, every ship in Iceland heads out to sea at exactly 1:00 pm, with all the civilians in them, it's like a yacht ride, except in actual fishing boats and we race in them and other stuff >:D then, when we return ( in my town)
we head over to Mjóeyri, and have a rowing competition, which i just happened to compete in and win along with my team :D
then we go over to the port, where a plank is suspended over the sea, and volunteers can duel each other on them, with boyus to hit each other into the ocean below, I did this with my friend óli, I won :D, but I jumped in anyway, because there was a fucking monsoon storm outside, except colder :S
A great day indeed.
more about:
Þorramatur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Eorramatur
How much better my country is than yours: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland