The Icelandic Volcano Town Grindavík - Where Life in Salt Fish - Part 2/3
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Welcome to the second part of my travel story to the new Icelandic volcano in what it means for the nearest town and our infrastructure.
Part 3 will be online soon. Link to Part I
• The Icelandic Volcano ...
Part 1. The travel to Grindavík and the surroundings:
Part 2. Full Grindavík tour, culture and stories.
Part 3. Walking tour to the volcano and footage
So for those of you who just wanted to see the “red stuff” it’s less than you might expect, but i covered however the surroundings very well and it’s mixed with information about icelandic history, culture and mentality, which is an approach that I know many of my viewers like.
Links:
British / Icelandic Cod War Documentary
• British Icelandic Cod ...
Online Geological map of Iceland
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14 month earthquake timelapse
• 14 month Time-lapse Sh...
Lava roads on the Reykjanes Peninsula
• Drive Trough the Reykj...
Thanks, interesting series. One of the British fishing boats in the 1970s cod wars was the Ross Revenge, which had formerly operated out of Reykjavik in the 1960s under its original name Freyr. In the 1980s it was bought by the Radio Caroline organisation and broadcast for several years before eventually succumbing to damage from several storms and running aground on the Goodwin Sands. It is now moored in the Blackwater estuary in Essex, and can still be visited on tours, as I did a couple of years ago. A good strong ship, lots of information about it on RUclips and internet sites.
Thanks for this input, there are so many remarkable stories from this period and many young people don't know that this conflict evert took place.
So much interesting recent history told in such an engaging way. Us Brits are uncomfortable being reminded of The Cod Wars but I personally first became aware of Iceland as a child through news reports of the eruption on the Westmann Islands. My imagination was captured by stories of the people saving their harbour from the lava by pumping seawater from ships to stop it advancing. I made a point of getting out to Heimay the first time I came to Iceland and learned of the mass evacuation from the eruption museum there. Finding out in this video that many of the evacuated families and the boats that took them ended up in Grindavik adds the next instalment of the story for me. I’m regretting now that l got no further on the Reykjanes peninsula than the Blue Lagoon, but maybe there will be another chance to visit Iceland soon.
In my experience, stories are part of what holds communities together. Thank you for sharing some of the story and soul of this place with me and others. The world is truly a smaller place when we can be a small part of your story.
Well said and appreciated :)
Great explanation of science of eruption and surrounding area. Having an eruption just down the road from the Keflavik international airport should kick off a great tourist season. One of the most enjoyable weekly events at Naval Air Station Keflavik in the late 70s was Friday night fish fry at USO. Nothing like having a piece of cod the size of your fist from Grindavik. Thanks for the renewed memories. Really appreciate the video!
Wonderful, so you know what fresh fish is about but I never go to fish restaurants while abroad :) and you can expect footage from the old base area this summer since I getting so many guests from the base and it's fantastic that you are using my channel to move back in time :)
I can't tell you how much I am enjoying this series. Thank you so much for sharing!
You are so welcome!
The amount of information packed in these 1074 seconds is truly incredible. Beyond information, and more importantly, thanks for sharing with us the soul of this corner of Iceland you manifestly like.
Thanks a lot :) more online now :)
I really enjoy your documentaries! Makes me want to go there!
You should :)
I remember the cod wars when growing up in London, and everyone I knew were on Iceland's side.
Thanks for your awesome videos.
Glad you enjoyed and welcome :)
You are a wonderful storyteller. Thank you for posting
Thank you so much!
Wonderful, captivating story telling. As a child growing up in northern England, I vaguely recall watching the cod wars play out on regional news in glorious black and white - but mostly grey. It was a ludicrous, dangerous battle that should never have been fought and eventually justice prevailed. Ironically, I now work for the primary maritime search and rescue charity in the U.K., rescuing fishermen of all nations in seas which can be dangerous enough even in the best of weather. Thank you for this insight into the real Iceland and roll on episode 3.
Thank you very much and welcome :) Episode 3 is coming very soon but first I will post a short volcano update tonight :)
Watching so many of your videos as we're planning to be in Iceland in June 2023. Your clips, commentary, drone shots, scientific and history knowledge and humor are about the best of any travel videos I have ever seen. And I look and plan down to a spreadsheet trip plan; we travel a lot (minus covid time). Thank you for a totally refreshing, un-hyped, beautiful look at your country. So looking forward to it; coming via Denmark on the boat with our own car. Sure hope those volcanoes and earthquakes stay quiet next year! Merci, thanks so much. Linda near Paris, France.
Thank you so much Linda, way more to come and be very welcome to Iceland :)
Thanks to you
Welcome :)
Your humour adds everything to an already compelling history and story telling style.
Thanks
Wow, thank you so much :) and enjoy, just starting :)
Again thanks for the great video., so interesting. Hard to believe warships and planes in clashes against fishing boats. Glad Iceland still likes the Brits considering!! We are now independent in the UK so be interesting to see what happens with our fishing limits and quotas now we have Brexited from EU. Pirate Radio Caroline the converted fishing boat one of your commenters mentioned is just down the coast and used to anchor off Felixstowe/Harwich during the Sixties playing pop songs it had a colourful life. Looking forward to part 3. Love the humour. Laughed out loud with some of your comments. 🤣👍
We have actually always considered the Brits to be our friends but politics is politics and this chapter left places like Hull and Grimsby in ruins so we understand very well the people there, and hope that Brexit will help them. And thanks for visiting :)
Great stories. I appreciate the 'real' face of Iceland. Thanks so much!
Welcome :)
History past and present made very interesting. Thank you for posting these, so enjoyable
Thanks a lot :)
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, keep safe and well 🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️
👍 thanks for stopping by :)
Thanks good story. I’d never heard of the cod wars before, I find it really interesting.
Glad you enjoyed and it's a link in the description to a good documentary about it :)
Thank you, I’m learning more about Iceland than I imagined, and it’s all truly interesting. I shall have to persuade my boyfriend to come for a visit. He loves mountain biking but hates cold weather so I’m not sure how successful I’ll be!
I would not worry about the weather during summers :) After all, we would not handle it either is they weren't usable :) and welcome to Iceland :) and thanks for stopping by on my channel :)
Great story, history, and tour of Iceland thank you.
Thanks a lot :)
Whe I was young fishing in Alaska we had openings with no individual quota but then the quota system came. Some did sell theirs quickly to the big companies. The only way now is to start as a deck hand and save your pennies until you have enough to start to buy quotas from those selling.
You are correct and thanks for visiting :)
enjoyed our holiday in Iceland in 2015.
I remember having a chuckle, when we were looking at the coast guard ship from the cod wars, moored near the maritime museum. A local told us Iceland would win the cod wars either way as the ships were insured with Lloyds of London.
Good one :) and welcome again :)
Informative video, thank you
You're welcome
Thank you! Toll collecting sheep or Troll collecting sheep lol loved that!
it's not cheap to meet a sheep here in Iceland :)
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It is not a story you tell, this is a Saga: Saga Grindavíkur :) By the way, during the cod war I as young boy was for Iceland, finding it fantastic that a small people dared to face the British empire. Áfram Ísland! hahaha
Thank you so very much! I just love your videos, and maybe starting to love Icelanders! Drunken footballer 😂😂😉
Always welcome :)
Thank you for this information about Grindavik. I have stayed on the campsite near the harbour in june 2017 😀 Regards from the Netherlands.
Welcome 👍
Great footage, stills and commentary! Grindavik has an interesting history. Cod Wars were a sad time but the best man (morally) won (every dispute)! "The Smell of Money" and "Sheep Road Toll!" 😂 Very true!! 🇮🇸 Stay safe! 🙏
Glad you enjoyed, new video online now :) ruclips.net/video/iwBngnUlrpo/видео.html
Thankyou very interesting.
Thanks for visiting :)
I vaguely remember the cod wars and as a Brit the news was always presented as your ships ramming ours. I think justice was done in the end though, you got what you needed and deserved in my opinion. I had never heard the Lee Sharpe story, he played for my team briefly, Leeds United. Loving this series of tours, thank you.
Your'e right, we don't know all the details about the cod wars and Icelanders used what ever the could get away with since our patrol ships had limitations against the frigates, and Icelandic trawlers joined the conflict with wire cutters and for sure something that's not in the official story. But thanks for visiting and always welcome :)
I'm loving this series! I never knew about the cod wars. I had wondered why so many people in comment sections talked about their time being stationed there! You have a beautiful country, rich in history. I'll no be eating the rotten shark, although my grandparents came from Norway and Sweden. Apologies to my ancestors! A fresh shark steak will do though! I do enjoy your humor! Thank you!
Thank a lot, and I don't recommend the shark in any form :)
Thank you for expanding our knowledge of Iceland! Very interesting! 👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Informative, thankyou
You're welcome
You always make me laugh!
Thanks a lot and enjoy :)
If I visited Iceland I would absolutely wanna have a beer with this joker. I love the dark sarcasm! Thanks for the great videos, ya nut!
Any time :) new video online now :) ruclips.net/video/iwBngnUlrpo/видео.html
@@JustIcelandic We need Part 3 in the Grindavik Series!
@@jonasojka It's online now :)
I'm here from 3 years in the future. Beautiful Grindavik sits abandoned because of a near by volcano. Hopefully it will settle down and the town be restored.
It's still possible, but with eruption number 9 confirmed, this isn't getting any easier
Thank you for sharing these stories. I am really enjoying learning about the history of the area.
Stunning coverage, certainly relate from New Zealand 🪝⛴🐑🌋🌊
Thank you 🙌
Thank you colourful Island and thank you to you for your colourful stories 👍❤️
Unfortunately Sharpe played only three games in Sampdoria...
Aha, so it was obviously better to play with Grindavík :) more games :)
@@JustIcelandic 👍❤️
I think I would be having a hard time in Iceland, not eating meat nor fish 😁
Greatings from the other side of Great Britain (the Netherlands)
I can promise you that you would love what our greenhouses products since the water here is excellent or the purest ingredient to be found to make any vegan happy from truly healthy products :)
@@JustIcelandic Good to hear 👍
Very interesting. People living on this Island might be lucky but scaring for the future ! God Bless ❤️
❤️ thank you :)
Never knew about the fish wars
Remarkable period and it's lot of good info about it here on RUclips :)
Life is hard work. I sometimes begrudge our new society that will lead you to believe life is nothing but avoiding hard work.
Aha....same problem here so little towns like this are so good to teach people values before the social media "reality" kicks in
Cod wars 😱
lol Pretty one sided biased explanation of the cod wars.
Feel free to explain what's missing :)
@@OldDunollieman 😂 New Zealand has similar experiences. Nuclear free Pacific. Fishing and quota issues - ongoing. Oceania is the current boundary dispute. Iceland is NZs doppelganger 🤣
I found the information about the Cod Wars very interesting. It appears that ocean resources will always be in dispute. My parents were born in Maine, USA and the fishing areas seem to always be in dispute. It is one thing to just see the news story and another to see how the individual people and towns are affected. As a typical American, I seem to always root the "little guy."
According to the 1920 census, one of my great-great-great grandmothers was from Iceland. I would love to visit one day! You can’t eat knitting (as you can fish), but is there enough income from knitting? Sheep can only “grow” so much Lopi, I suppose.
Is there a hockey rink? I’d hate to leave my goalie gear at home and miss a good rink.
There is a hockey rink here in Iceland do you can bring your gear with you 😊
Very interesting 😊
Glad you think so!
Disgraceful bullying behaviour by my country -I am really glad you guys stood your ground.
Thank you very much :) and welcome :)
Þakka þér kærlega fyrir allar þessar upplýsingar ☺ og 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Takk fyrir komuna :)
What a super way to be introduced to Iceland, when are you taking over as Minister of Tourism?.....or would the salary be too much for you!!!
I would be the last guy on earth to put my self in the position to be stuck with "official voice" and leave the sarcasm at home :)
@@JustIcelandic But then it could be Official Sarsasm! 😉😎
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Thanks for visiting :)
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Welcome :)
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Welcome :)
Too see the smiles on the young men wrestling with the mostly smiling police is funny the cops would be in agreement with the young people but need to maintain order. They would be old men now and still smiling. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Thank you for your informative and entertaining video. As you said, the UK is in a similar position as Iceland in trying to protect 'our' fishing stocks from the avaricious EU trawlers. I wonder how that will end.
Indeed, colourful stories are told by colourful people. A truism if ever there was one.
how many trees are there in iceland? , i have not seen any in any veido
What I have read is that, Iceland used to be wooded but when it was first settled, they cut it all down for firewood-not realizing the steam from the hot springs could be used to heat their homes, etc. They have been replanting but I’m not sure what areas.
Go to Iceland and you will understand why. 🥶🥶🥶
The reason you have probably not seen many trees in his videos is because he has been posting alot about the volcano and the area around. That area is of course a lava field - Old hardened lava from previous eruptions. Trees need soil to grow. There is not much soil in old lava fields, only layers and layers of rock. But the fact that the settlement people did cut down most of Iceland's forests and the fact that trees in Iceland grow slower than in other places of the world because of lack of sunlight and weather conditions, does not help the tree count in Iceland. But of course there are trees in Iceland in more habitable areas and even forests. Just not on lava fields.
Damn, Where's all the trees?
Both of them around 150 km away!
@@JustIcelandic 😂😂🙏
Environmentalists in America claim that cod is overfished and should be an endangered species. They say it's going extinct. What nonsense ! One of my Icelandic relatives ís 73 years old and been on fishing boats all his life since he was 8 years old. He now has his own boat and still goes out to fish with his family. He told me that he has never seen as much cod that is just waiting to be caught as there is today. I'll believe him before I believe the environmentalists.
We catch over 200.000 tons annually :)
Thanks for your reply. Those environmentalists are always looking for new avenues for more funding. Polar bears aren't going extinct, either. There are 1,400,000 elephants throughout Asia and Africa , yet they say they're going bye-bye. No they're not. They're always looking for more money, the thieves. Anyhow, I always pay attention to your postings, whether it's about the eruption or anything else. Your conclusions and summaries are far and away more trustworthy than those we get from government officials. Hafðu það gott, my friend.
Dividing up perpetual access to what is a natural resource to those who happened to be fishing at the time these decisions were made appears to me to be grossly inequitable.
As a Brit (though half Irish) I see the Cod wars as a shameful incidence of bullying. Sorry Iceland.
The Brits are not little angels either they bullied other countries in the past as well for profit and war
Thanks, just politics but the we have good relationship with the Brits today and it will continue to be so :)
no....Iceland will never see me...you keep the water, I'll keep my Appalachian Mts.....you have no trees..that's a deal breaker.
No trees!.......... NO...both of them are just fine!
@@JustIcelandic Always a quick comeback! Love your humor!!!
✌️😹 Don't know if you've seen Sesame Street kids program from the US. Your joke made me think of the muppet character the "Count, a vampire parody, who has to count things." If you haven't, I'm sure there's some clips on YT. He's works his way into random jokes every so often here in the US....And the sheep, I just love the personalities of the animals, too!
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