#jaja ding dong

[lostallcaps-podcast]

Drive Shaft reunion tour when????

[captainmartinisblog]

Elves, Trolls and the Best Laid Plans…..

Friday 14th June 2024 – Akureyri, Iceland.

The last couple of days, they haven’t opened the pool early enough for me to go swimming before breakfast. No reason is given; it’s entirely arbitrary.

So today, I took the law into my own hands, I untied the rope myself and had a lovely swim!

Today, we arrived in Akureyri, the second largest city in Iceland and capital of the Western Fjords, with a population of nearly 25,000. It’s also the second most popular tourist destination in Iceland and we were followed by Costa Favolosa all the way from Seydisfjordur yesterday.

We docked for the first time this trip, which was refreshing, as all that tendering was beginning to get a bit tiresome!

Anyway, Andrew & I had chosen an 8-hour excursion today called the ‘Diamond Circle’.

We’re not fond of all-day tours these days, as they can a bit exhausting, not to say expensive! But having been to Akureyri before, we chose this one in order to visit the Dettifoss Falls – the second largest in Europe – plus, this trip also mentioned Husavik, which as any fan of Eurovision may know, was the setting of the 2014 movie ‘Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga’.

However, the bus had barely left the pier when we were told by the guide that we couldn’t visit Detifoss Falls because the area was closed due to heavy snow falls last week, making the trek to it dangerous. Well that put a dampener on things straightaway!

Our first planned stop was at the Lava Fields of Dimmuborgir, where some of the lava formations reach 65 feet high.

Icelandic myth says that this was formed when some Trolls had a wild party and lost track of the time (trolls clearly didn’t have watches in those days) and when the sun came up, they were turned into rocks. In truth, this area was a vast lake or marsh-land when volcanic lava erupted from fissures and solidified – but the story of the trolls is more fun!

We knew we were expecting lunch later but for some reason, we made another stop at this view-point for a ‘picnic snack’ overlooking MyVatn and what remains of the vast lake mentioned above, now pocked with sulphur springs. It was an impressive view but as to the ‘picnic’, we were all a bit puzzled….

Our excursion was also supposed to visit the ‘Whispering Cliffs’ of Hljodklettar in the Vatnajokull National Park but, guess what, that was closed too! Instead, we were taken on a trek through a forest to a pond popular with breeding ducks (except that there weren’t any ducks either!)

Icelandic Joke – Question: What do you do if you get lost in an Icelandic forest? Answer: Stand up! (Icelandic trees don’t grow very high because of the severe climate and lack of daylight 4 months of the year)

The area is known as Myndun Asbyrgis, a horseshoe-shaped canyon with cliffs up to 330 feet. Nick-named ‘Sleipnir’s Footprint’, it is said that it was created when one of the eight hooves of Odin’s horse, Sleipnir, accidentally touched the earth. Yes, well, today’s geologists prefer to believe that it was caused by catastrophic glacial flooding; a bit boring but probably closer to the truth!

Today we were indeed blessed with glorious sunshine all day, temperatures rising to the dizzy heights of 20 degrees – I even took off my woolly!

After a two-course lunch at a restaurant in the middle of nowhere, our next stop was supposed to be in Husavik and Andrew & I were both looking forward to at least finding the ‘JaJa Ding Dong Bar’, named in honour of the 2014 movie set here, ‘Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga’.

But the bus drove straight through the town and our guide never even mentioned the film! All this was, presumably, so that our tour could stop at Godafoss Falls on the way back to the ship.

At around 30-40 ft, these falls are less impressive than Detifoss but it was here that at the time Christianity was being introduced around 1000AD, the local leader figure Porgeir threw his statues of the Norse Gods into the falls – hence the ‘Waterfall of the Gods’. All well and good but we had been here last time and these falls (quite near Akureyri) were on almost every other excursion apart from the one we chose!

It is said in Iceland that the Elves (or the ‘Hidden People’) often interfere with the lives of humans and that people should be mindful. It’s all twaddle of course, intended to make children behave (and adults for that matter) and follow the rules of the community in what was then a cruel world to survive in. But over 50% of the population still believe in the ‘Hidden People’ (or say they do, jus in case) and maybe, just maybe, the Elves had something to do with the events of today, because I took the rope off the pool to go swimming, instead of ‘obeying the rules’………

[ask-sebastian]

I do decree that Boost must include Jaja Ding Dong.

[chronomally]

I didn't think anyone saw the Eurovision movie with Will Ferrell but apparently it was a hit with the Australians I'm traveling with

[the-not-so-frenchy-frie]

[dymagamwedd]

NOT THE OFFICIAL RMT POSTING A JAJA DING DONG REFERENCE

[monokerus]

Some things that are mandatory for Eurovision Song Contest nowadays:

The hosts trying to synchronize "good evening Europe" and failing

Someone wanting to hear Jaja Ding Dong

UK or Germany coming in last

Random appearance from Måns

Pagan ritual entry

Sneaking up on Graham Norton during the live show

[lululawrence]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY LOVE

🥳💕🎁

hehehehe yessssss i love it when these dorks dance so much hehe thank youuuuu!! i love youuuuuu! and i just had to switch playlists, so your song is gonna be the first one from a different one!

i'm gifting everyone who has sent me a lovely birthday ask a random song off of a previous playlist i landed on while scrolling my playlists on spotify as a thank you! hahaha the current playlist is my spring 2021 playlist, and the song that came up for you was:

BAHAHAHAHA okay that song was on there because it was a hellish year and i needed a laugh sometimes... but lemme gift you a song that wasn't just on the playlist as a joke lmaoooo your non-joke song is...

[thecagedbard]

Imagine, if you will...

These two:

Disguised as these two:

singing:

as a cheeky little distraction. How fast would Jaheira try kill them?

[littlebookmermaid]

i'm watching Eurovision song contest- the Fire saga as a way to end this eurovision week 🥳 That sing off between a bunch of eurovision artists is my multiverse of madness

also since we're going to sweden next year and the voice of Sigrit is a swedish singer i will be expecting her to perform and have a dude yell "Play jaja ding dong"

[thequiver]

🎵

[duskodair]

Jaja ding dong, light of my life. love it

[adtothebone]

Today’s tongs don’t tong as long as tongs used to tong, and that’s wrong. The old tongs from Hong Kong were strong — you could tong the “Jaja Ding Dong” song on a gong like King Kong in a thong and sarong all day long and the tongs would still tong.

[totaldramafan-lauri]

That "JaJa Ding Dong" moment in 2021 was iconic

[405blazeitt]

for anyone who needs something to replace a certain song contest, here's a para para song mix, a 4000 x 3000px jpg of verka serduchka, and jaja ding dong, go wild