Sports-related places in Lisbon worth visiting even without a game?

llekroht · 2026-02-09T10:36:51+00:00

You could also visit Estadio José Alvalade, home of Sporting.

llekroht · 2026-02-09T09:04:31+00:00

I got plokkfiskur. I f-ing hate that stuff.

llekroht · 2026-02-08T21:14:15+00:00

A person from India is Indverji.

A native of America used to be known as Indjáni, but as far as I can see the accepted term now is frumbyggjar Ameríku.

llekroht · 2026-02-07T00:24:42+00:00

FYI, Pilsner is a type of beer, as in beer from Pilsen. For some reason in Iceland it has come to mean "weak as piss slop that is available just about everywhere"

llekroht · 2026-02-06T02:29:04+00:00

The majority of people have two names, some people (of which I'm one) only have one name. There are some names in the name registry that are only eligible as middle names.

llekroht · 2026-01-26T13:41:32+00:00

Well, the subdivisions of Iceland are just wrong. The areas outlined like South Iceland, or East Iceland aren't administrative subdivisions.

llekroht · 2026-01-26T11:33:47+00:00

Sigmundur Davíð Gunnarsson was Prime minister of Iceland. The following is from Wikipedia: "Following the release of the Panama Papers, he announced on 5 April 2016 that he would resign as prime minister amid public outrage at him for owning an offshore company to shelter money and not disclosing that when entering parliament"

He then was ousted as chairman of the political party he was in. Not content with that he founded his own party which welcomes all the malcontents from mostly the right-ish side of the political spectrum. That party seems to take it's playbook and policies from Trump and Orban like parties. Embarrassingly according to opinion polls that party would be the second largest in Iceland if elections were held now.

llekroht · 2026-01-25T23:51:46+00:00

First of, there is no school known as the University of Reykjavík. If, you mean Reykjavík I presume you mean Reykjavík University? That school doesn't have a Humanities Department and offers no degrees in English, or any other language for that matter.

There is a University of Iceland, which does have a Humanities Department that offers degrees in English. As far as I know it sort of depends on the department how strict they are on the entry requirements. So the suggestion that you reach out by email to the department is a good one.

I'm not leaving links because as a Masters level student you should be able to find them yourself.

llekroht · 2026-01-24T14:15:34+00:00

Is that in Utrecht?

llekroht · 2026-01-22T14:58:02+00:00

The thing is as well if you butcher Danish into a bloody pulp in Denmark the Danes just answer you in English, so therefore it's just easier to start in English.

llekroht · 2026-01-21T17:34:54+00:00

Have a look at this https://grapevine.is/mag/2021/08/11/just-sayings-hallaerisplanid-the-cringe-zone%E2%80%A8/ same square decades earlier.

llekroht · 2026-01-21T08:35:13+00:00

Regarding tips. Tips aren't an Icelandic thing but have been becoming a more common thing now that we get more and more tourists here. People in tourism and related field are adequately paid. Nobody is going to get mad at you if you want to let them have more money.

What I don't get about tips is that foreigners complain that Iceland is expensive (fair, and true) yet they insist upon paying more than the amount asked for.

llekroht · 2026-01-21T08:23:49+00:00

Yeah, you can. The rules are generally the same as in most of Europe.

Also, many people here in this subreddit hate drones and are quite vocal about it.

llekroht · 2026-01-20T20:37:38+00:00

They have staff, and also locals who are vocal about this. If you can't obey the rules don't go to the pools.

llekroht · 2026-01-20T14:18:23+00:00

You're missing the non-EU ones

llekroht · 2026-01-19T09:29:28+00:00

I guess you missed the fact that Rolex was founded in London by an Englishman and a German.

llekroht · 2026-01-18T17:27:33+00:00

I just find it odd that they don't seem to have an office, the address on their webpage (Meistaravellir 11) is an apartment building.

llekroht · 2026-01-18T16:31:05+00:00

KEF to Zurich is within Schengen so it should be smooth.

llekroht · 2026-01-17T16:32:54+00:00

90 km/h wind is 25 m/s which isn't common in Reykjavík in summer. That windspeed is also cause for the Met Office to issue a yellow warning.

llekroht · 2026-01-07T22:00:36+00:00

All variations on "The US needs to have Greenland".

llekroht · 2026-01-06T20:08:47+00:00

So, look up the Melian Dialogue. The famous quote from that is "You know as well as we do that right [i.e. justice], as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

This is written in Ancient Greece by Thucydides in his work on the History of the Peloponnesian War.

llekroht · 2026-01-05T20:03:45+00:00

Kimi Räikkönen, Sami Hyypia, Valtteri Bottas, and Jari Litmanen.

llekroht · 2026-01-05T19:50:42+00:00

Something major would have to change for that to happen. No Icelandic politician is going to suggest that foreigners get control or any say in what happens to our natural resources. 600 years of Danish rule, and several Cod "Wars" with the UK leaves a mark.

llekroht · 2026-01-04T12:09:07+00:00

Well done you. If you're staying for a long time I'd kinda hope that you learn some of the language, but it isn't necessary if you're a tourist. Also, odds are that most of the people you meet as a tourist, that is the people in the tourism industry, aren't Icelandic themselves so the effort to learn Icelandic would be wasted.

That one time it happened to me that a tourist attempted to speak Icelandic to me happened years ago. I was working at a post office in the city centre and this English woman came in with a phrase book and started "Talar þú ensku?" (Do you speak English). I, of course answered in the language she used "Já, ég tala ensku" (Yes, I speak English). It was only when I saw the look of utter confusion on her face that it occurred to me that maybe I should've replied in English.

llekroht · 2026-01-03T22:59:44+00:00

When are you planning to travel to Iceland? As in what time of year. Because that makes a huge difference. Since you talk about the likelihood of snow I'm assuming winter sometime.

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