Reykjavík Grapevine - 18.07.2014, Síða 4

Dear Anna,
we just spent two weeks in iceland, and
I very much liked to read your paper. It
gives one much information about Ice-
landic society a visitor hardly could get so
fast otherwise.
Iceland's not only good for proposals (you
see, I really read your journal) but also for
a silver wedding journey. As it was really,
really beautiful, I dare to ask you for a fa-
vour:
Two days before we left home, on Tues-
day 8th of July, our camera got lost, be-
tween 17:50 and 19:00 on bus No.1 be-
tween Hamraborg and MR or on the way
from there through Austurstraeti and so
on to Volcano House. We don't know if it
fell out of the anorak or rucksack pocket
or if it was stolen (pickpocketed). But in
it, there were all the pictures we took, in-
cluding the one of us between two glacier
tongues at our 25th wedding day.
We went three times to Hlemmur
Lost&Found, we reported it to the Police
and Barón-Hotel, were we stayed, but to
this time, there is no news about it.
May we ask you to "alarm" your reader-
ship and maybe to forward this matter to
Morganbladinn or another widely spread
paper? Since one says that in Iceland ev-
erybody knows everbody (see Hildur's
personal account in issue 9) I very much
hope there is a chance to at least get the
memory card with all the photos on it
if not the silver-coloured Canon Power
Shot S 110 in a retro-style light-brown
leather case itself.
Please, please help us.
Yours sincerely
Martina + Hariolf Mosthaf, Freiburg
i.Br., Germany
Guten Tag, Martina and Hariolf!
First, may we congratulate you on 25
years of the kind of adventurous mar-
riage that finds you celebrating your
silver anniversary between two gla-
cial tongues in Iceland. We wish you
many more happy travels together in
the future.
We’re sorry to hear that you lost
your camera (we’ll assume it was lost
and not stolen), but you’re right: it is
not outside of the realm of possibility
that someone here found it and can re-
turn it (or at least the memory card) to
you both. (We once had a friend whose
debit card was found on the side of the
road in the countryside. The finder
drove the card all the way to Reykja-
vík—several hours away—to return
it.)
So, dear readers, if you found Mar-
tina and Hariolf’s camera or can re-
turn the memory card (no questions
asked), please email us at grapevine@
grapevine.is.
Optimistically,
The Grapevine.
Hello Grapevine!
I am a wedding photographer from Richmond, Virginia, and I'm
travelling to Iceland in late August to do some shooting. I'm su-
per stoked about exploring your wicked beautiful country and
doing all the amazing things you write about in your magazine.
I am planning a couple styled shoots while I am there and I am
looking for different vendors. I'm hoping you may know some
awesome folks, or have some recommendations for me. I'm first
off looking for 2 or 3 super rad couples. Maybe they are already
married, or just seriously in love, but I want to track down some
hip kids who want to get their photos taken being all ridicu-
lously in love and shit, and get paid! Secondly, I'm trying to find
some great stylists and/ or florists. I would SO appreciate any
direction or help you can give me with this. You can check out
my work on my website,www.ashleighhobsonrva.com, or my
most recent published shoot on Green Wedding Shoes Blog,
http://greenweddingshoes.com/eclectic-celestial-wedding-
inspiration/
Thanks so much!!
Best,
Ashleigh Hobson
Well, hey there, Ashleigh-
You’re stoked about visiting Iceland and we’re stoked about
your enthusiasm. Unfortunately, being curmudgeonly
writer-types who often hang about with other curmud-
geonly writer-types, we don’t have any great leads for you
on happy couples, stylists or f lorists. HOWEVER: we have
great faith in our readers and believe that we’ve got to have
at least a few who are “rediculously in love and shit” or at
least know someone else who is. So with any luck, you’ll be
awash with messages from stylish lovers shortly.
Amorously,
The Grapevine.
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