This blog sounds altogether too pedantic lately, when not downright dour. But there is some fun I would like to have, and although I do not know whether I can afford it, I believe I should really try. One of my relatives, a rather well known composer and poet, has died. His urn will be buried on his native Faroe Islands in June, amid great feasting upon dried lamb. Many poets will attend, and we will sing.
If I go, it will probably be by way of Iceland, as it is less expensive to fly there than it is to Europe or further East in Scandinavia. From Iceland one can fly (in an hour and fifteen minutes) or take the ferry (in eighteen hours, overnight) to the Faroes. The ferry is slightly cheaper, but if you sail, you have greater incidental expenses – and greater adventures, of course. There are volcanos and geysers in Iceland, and cliffs and many sheep in the Faroes, and I will hike and buy yarn.
I will probably have to stay in this hostel in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, the night before catching the ferry. Seyðisfjörður is a fifteen hour bus ride from Reykjavik, the capital, where I would land. In Reykjavik, I would probably stay here, since hotels in Iceland are prohibitively expensive. This one, for example, is very economical by local standards. In the Faroes, fortunately, I will sleep in a house.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Sounds like a great endeavor. I’ve always wanted to see where those Vikings tramped around.
I think my visual was supposed to be toast.
But web radio is about to get a lot more expensive.
I hope I can go. Scandinavia is another world. Toast – I get it, finally, I can be so dense! I did sign the petition, twice I fear, about saving Internet radio. (I am addicted to it, and glad about that, would like to be even more addicted.)
Postscript: the best deal in Iceland, it seems, is the flight Reykjavík – Egilsstaðir, across the country for around $50. I could do this flight upon arriving, and then take a bus, I am sure, along the scenic 27 kilometers to Seyðisfjörður. That would be the alternative to a bus, and it could be done on the day I arrive … thus saving the expense of sleeping in Reykjavík.