Letter from Iceland #42

The "whaling, grub, and shine in a crisis" edition

Halló !

So, our blink-or-you’ll-miss-it eruption lasted less than 24 hours, but as I mentioned last time it managed to destroy the hot water pipeline that supplies the entire Reykjanes peninsula with heating and hot tap water.

When I wrote the last installment, it looked as though they might be able to get it going again within 48 hours, but alas, the da…