A few months before she turned 28, Anna Spysz, a Polish-American living in Krakow, noticed her birthday would fall on 10/10/10 — the 10th of October 2010. She decided she had to do something very interesting to celebrate.


A few months before she turned 28, Anna Spysz, a Polish-American living in Krakow, noticed her birthday would fall on 10/10/10 — the 10th of October 2010. She decided she had to do something very interesting to celebrate.

In July 2010 Alastair Humphreys and Christopher Herwig traversed Iceland north to south, on foot and by river, through its forbidding interior. Despite snow in summer, ice-cold rapids, and 14 straight days of rain, Alastair says “I’m completely in love with Iceland.”

Maybe it’s the winters. Or the economy. Or just a seemingly innate sense of the next trend in fashion. Whatever the reason, knitting for pleasure hasn’t been this popular in Iceland since the telephone became a novelty in Reykjavík.