The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 17,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 4 Film Festivals
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,400 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 15,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 3 fully loaded ships.
In 2010, there were 98 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 112 posts. There were 642 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 131mb. That’s about 2 pictures per day.
The busiest day of the year was February 19th with 434 views. The most popular post that day was About me.
The top referring sites in 2010 were lonelyplanet.com, 640.is, facebook.com, bakpokaferdir.com, and hallamarin.123.is.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for hoi an tailors, warren fellows, hoi an blog, maarten troost blog, and tiger kingdom.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
About me January 2010
The trips on this blog March 2010
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The Hoi An tailors March 2010
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How much does it cost to backpack in Asia? May 2010
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Guest houses and hostels February 2010
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Did you know that there are 1.47 sheep for every human in Iceland and in 1980 there were 3.65 sheep for every Icelander?
There are however 4.14 persons per Icelandic horse and about 12 of us per milking cow. More along those lines here.
On another note, here I saw that the Penis museum in Húsavík was voted the second mosts horrifying museum in the World. I checked out the museum in this post and thought it was kind of cute …or maybe cute isn’t the right word… interesting is more like it – but definitely not horrifying.
My friend Natasha just posted her first piece on Iceland -Iceland 101, Part 1: Reykjavík – so check that out!
If anyone is interested in Iceland and has some questions just shoot and I’ll try to answer any questions in the comments.
We just came back from another great trip around Iceland where we were accompanied by a great couple from Switzerland – Bob and Natasha. Natasha posted a few fantastic photos from the trip on her blog so go check them out by clicking here!
I’m sure she’ll post some more stuff from her trip to Iceland, I’ll be checking her site and will let you guys know.
I think this is the last chunk of photos from our trip to Asia. Here are the best photos from Thailand together with some Thai music.
I never got around to finish that round trip of Iceland so here it goes. We left Húsavík on the north coast, the town I grew up in, and headed towards Egilsstaðir in the east where my mother lives. The drive from Húsavík to Egilsstaðir is about three and a half hours so we weren’t too stressed with time. To get us ready for the road we got one of my favorite snacks – a deep fried hot dog with heaps of melted cheese a traditional hot dog bread …ummm delicious!
Our first stop along the way was at Lake Mývatn, a fantastic area around a beautiful lake. The area has everything to offer – great bird life, beautiful landscape and it is a volcanic hot spot. A lot of the area is covered with not-so-old lava and we stared off by visiting the church that stands untouched like an island in the lava field where where we stopped to look at little lambs that were playing in the yard.
Next up was a place the group was really looking forward to – “The Crack”. The Crack is a crack in the earth with a hot stream running through it where you can take a bath. There are a couple of cracks that you can bathe in but the one we picked has a steep climb down to the stream but once you are down it is absolutely magical.
After the bath we spent some time checking out the volcanic craters and the “fake” craters that formed when the lava flowed over the lake and evaporating water exploded up through the lava – so they are not really volcanic but impressive never the less. We also checked out Bjarnarflag, which is a very active hot-spot with many hot springs filled with volcanic mud.
After Mývatn the drive takes you into the highlands of Iceland where you have to prepared for anything – weather wise – especially since it was still May. We left Mývatnssveit in a nice but windy weather but as we gained altitude the snow started coming down. It wasn’t enough to cause us any problems however and we had an easy ride. We saw a few reindeers on the way – mostly males sporting majestic horns. Unfortunately the reindeers were too far away fro a decent photo.
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