Hestablog

A Sample of Video Stories on Hestakaup.com

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THESE ARE ONLY A FEW SAMPLES

Hestablog has become a blog!

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AN ICELANDIC TRAIL RIDE

It's all about  trail  riding.  Let's go for a ride with some friends in Skagafjörður.  This gives us the context for  just about all that follows.

Click on the picture at the left and it will take you to a story. Once there, all the images lead to videos.

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A VISIT WITH LUKKA

Many of you have heard of Lukka and some of you have even bought horses through her!  Here is a chance to go on a video visit with Lukka as she travels to a farm to evaluate a new horse for her sales list. This video can also be a guide in what to look for when horse shopping.

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OUR FAVORITE LITTLE RIDER!

A series of videos about a young girl and her great stallion, Hágangur.  It's about the different ways she learns to ride -- on the farm the old way, and taking dressage lessons from Mette Manseth who teaches and trains top horses and riders at Hólar.

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  THESE ARE ONLY A FEW VIDEO STORIES AS SAMPLES

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And Now a Word from Our Sponsor...

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It's not that the sponsor is silent.  It's that there is no sponsor. 

This site has been paid for out of  my own pocket.  I don't particularly mind, but  I can't keep  paying for all those $15 burgers in Iceland forever.   I would really like to go over to Iceland, different parts of it, more often and on a regular basis, but the meter is always running.  I need modest underwriting for expenses. In order to solicit some sponsorship from sources that would not be a conflict of interest or threaten my credibility, I need some sign from Iceland that my video efforts are appreciated and welcome.  Or even recognized.  So far, I have not been able to get any response from the government or horse organizations in this effort.

Anyone have any ideas?  Feel free to leave them as a comment!

A Geothermal Park

We  hear about all that clean clean energy that just flows from the ground in Iceland.  So one day I had to see it for myself.   

A short drive outside of Reykjavik is a kind of energy park called Nesjavellir (pronounced NESS-ya-vet-ler, just the way it is spelled, as the Icelanders will tell you).  The only thing that gives it away as something unusual is that you can see clouds of steam leaking from earth in some places. 

Spotted throughout the valley are  white Buckminster Fuller geodesic domes which seem to be the nodes for steel pipes which collect the steam from individual wells.  The pipes eventually come together at the power plant where electricity and hot water are co-generated. 

 
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I think my video captures the sights and sounds pretty well.  But I have to leave it to your imagination to get the smell of the sulfur! Clean energy, yes.  Odor-free?  No!  On the other hand, they get big bucks for it at the Blue Lagoon.

This really is a park with marked trails, view sites and tourist accommodations. You can find out more here.