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Things were very bad in 1780'ies.

That's why they went on the infamous 1792 tour in America.

Ah, she tastes like wine
Such a human being so divine
Oh she feels like sun
Mother nature look at what you're done
Oh i feel like letting go
Oh i feel like letting go.

I would hate to imagine if I was on my way to a Stones concert and got stuck at a airport.Thats why I always say to people if your going to a concert always allow ya self plenty of time.Ive known of people who left on the same day and miss out because of delays especially if ya going long distance.Things can get pretty messy other wise.

This has completely plundered international air travel.

schillid..It will be a good wee earner for the Railways at the moment.

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schillid..It will be a good wee earner for the Railways at the moment.

For sure... you can be sure the Railways will try to plunder the situation as much as possible

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I would hate to imagine if I was on my way to a Stones concert and got stuck at a airport.Thats why I always say to people if your going to a concert always allow ya self plenty of time.Ive known of people who left on the same day and miss out because of delays especially if ya going long distance.Things can get pretty messy other wise.

Well - no fun being over cautious either...
Once I boarded a flight from Oslo to NYC at 4 PM local time (10 AM EST). Landed at 6:30, grabbed a cab and was in Midtown at 8.00. Threw the suitcases into the appartment and ran 500 meters over to the MSG. They had tickets left for the show that night (I only har tickets for the January 18th show, and this was January 16th 2003), but they were expensive. Anyway, got a ticket and took my row 3 seat 12 minutes before the Stones came on stage. That's good timing! Fortunately - all volcanos were sound asleep back then.
Hope everything turns out fine in Iceland and that both human and animal lives are spared. No casualties, please - you're so few already - take care, everyone in the Saga island.

On our news tonight an English pilot was been interviewed and telling of his experience back 1982? A Singapore to New Zealand flight how his plane was going through volcanic ash and not realising it.His 4 engines stopped with flames coming out all 4 of them and the cabin filling with smoke so he dived to 10.000 feet got into clean air the flames went out and the engines started.He said his plane was sandblasted.That would be a scary experience.

From [www.csmonitor.com]



"A plume of volcanic ash rises into the atmosphere from a crater under about 656 feet of ice at the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland on April 14. After the volcano's second eruption in less than a month, northern Europe turned into a no-fly zone on Thursday, stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers due to the huge amounts of ash."

Dust Danger over Europe:



[www.spiegel.de]

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Ray
15 and counting. No stopping. Stockholm next.

Working for a tour operator specialized in Scandinavia and Iceland this volcano thing is both good and bad.
Good cause now Iceland is everywhere on the news, bad cause people are cancelling trips to all of Scandinavia right now.

What they probadly need now is a good bit of rain it will make things a bit messy on the ground but may help with clearing the skies.Weve had the problem here but nowhere is bad as that..ya just dont want to be hanging ya washing out for a few days.

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From [www.csmonitor.com]

That photo is surreal.

From [www.planetecampus.com]
(Sorry, the site is in French)

i live to the west of the volcano (reykjvik area) so cauce of the western wind,we dont notice a thing, ...

the newest joke on this situation is, that the last wish of the chrashed icelandic economy was to have its ashes spread over Eourope..

hope nobody of you misses concerts cause of this..

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i live to the west of the volcano (reykjvik area) so cauce of the western wind,we dont notice a thing, ...

the newest joke on this situation is, that the last wish of the chrashed icelandic economy was to have its ashes spread over Eourope..

hope nobody of you misses concerts cause of this..

It's still (near) pure blue sky here (south Belgium), but they said temps will fall down during the night. Don't know if it has anything to do with the ashes...

Thats *Mother Nature* doing its thing and its nothing humans can do about it. But just stand well back and watch it until its finished in its own time ... then theres the next time.To think the heat from those volcanos can turn solid rock in liquid and to see the speed it can travel at its just unreal.Would be great to watch at a safe distance of course.

thats what would / could happen right now if you fly over iceland....scary but very interesting clip: (part 2,3 and 4 on youtube)

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Blue Turns To Gray

Get off of my cloud...

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And what's worse - the air's full of sulphur in Oslo now. Happened the last hour or so.

That stuff has got to stink! What's it like over there now?

everything ok in reykjavik area now
i am watching icland vs france in handball on TV

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i am watching icland vs france in handball on TV

Who is winning?

France are the best handballteam in the world at the moment, world chamions.
my Iceland are probably among the 3 best in the world.
it was "friendly game" ie not a part of a competiton, and ended as a draw 29 : 29. quite exciting, with France leading by 5 goals at halftime.

the French team just managed to get here the day before yesterday, before the airports closed down cause of the ash..

they play again tomorrow, I will keep you posted !

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From [www.csmonitor.com]

That photo is surreal.

it is Cindy. it was taken by the farmer just before he left the farm for security reasons, He is an amateur photographer, just like you and me so to speak, and has now sold the picture to everywhere, he says that the profit of those sales will do god when he has to pay for the repairs og cleaning up of the farm.
Othervise a shiny saturday in Iceland, take care !

If I was booked to board a flight from Heathrow to Singapore to Melbourne on Sunday morning, should I be expecting the flight to lift off?

A work colleague's 18 year old son had a bad asthma attack. After a night in hospital, he has been told to stay indoors until the dust situation is resolved. He has to put on a mask to answer the door.

For a friend's birthday, his partner was taking him on holiday to Italy. The flight yesterday was cancelled, but they got the promise of a full refund (from Easyjet!) so are off to the Inner Hebrides in a camper van today.

on behalf of Mother nature Iceland,i apologize for those inconivencies (spelling)
, hopefully this will be over soon. We might though continue with some nice innocent mini-eruption, to boost the tourist industry this summer : )

This global warming has gotten out of hand.