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00:00The journey to the center of the earth begins here at the base of the Snyfal-Jakul glacier
00:26on a peninsula located at the 65th parallel.
00:41The first settlement dates back only 11 centuries,
00:45and a small community still lives on the peninsula today.
00:49The trolls and elves who've inhabited the underground since ancient times
00:57have had to contend with the prehistoric monsters imagined by Jules Théon.
01:05On the surface, the guardian of the temple, the Budir Hotel.
01:11custom- desktop
01:23Mr Shoe
01:31Let's see
01:33So, let's go.
02:03As we open, we have to be ready for the rush of the lunches.
02:17I want to serve the people, that's what I'm waiting for since November, so we have to
02:23finish this today.
02:24No matter what.
02:25I mean we will just aim for that we can prepare everything, have everything ready on the menu
02:32and then we will just see tomorrow if you need to cut something down or something and what
02:37you're almost going to go with.
02:39Yes.
02:40Okay.
02:41Let's do this, Berklin.
02:42Okay.
02:43Okay.
02:48How do you prepare this here?
02:53It's just been here for two hours.
02:55And the duck?
02:57The duck comes after and after, because they think about it again.
03:00Okay.
03:01And then we will have to be with him and after, five or six years, so we will just be here
03:07in this room for the evening.
03:10And then we will just be able to get older.
03:12And then we will just be able to get older.
03:16Yes, yes.
03:18Thank you, my brother.
03:20Do you want a coffee?
03:21Yes.
03:22Let's go.
03:23Let's go.
03:24Hello, my friend.
03:26Yes, yes, yes.
03:28I came up here to help my dad one day, 12 years ago.
03:38So I worked in every position in the hotel.
03:42We started there, helping in the restaurant, housekeeping, laundry, reception.
03:53So they were making some changes, and they were like, oh, if we don't have a manager, could
03:59you?
04:00And I was like, yeah, sure, probably.
04:04And it's almost been, yeah, four years later, I'm still the hotel manager.
04:11Thank you very much.
04:37What's up?
04:39Bye, bye.
05:07Bye, bye.
05:37I used to come here when the old daughter was here with my grandparents because my family
05:58comes from here and I was probably just seven years old, something like that.
06:07I don't even know which one is she and which one are the seals.
06:19I have three kids and I also have Elizabeth, a half-sister of my eldest daughter and now
06:31Elizabeth.
06:32She has a kid so I think of myself as a grandmother today.
07:13I prefer being here instead of the city because it's much calmer here.
07:25She's just at work.
07:26But then you just need to go outside and take it all in, appreciate it.
07:35So Elizabeth, father, helped me make the decision to move up here.
07:44So this here is going to be like a library in here.
07:51So this used to be closed.
07:54So we opened this one.
07:56So this used to be like staff hallway and we had the staff room.
08:01This used to be the laundry room.
08:04And yeah, and this was storage here.
08:08So here we're going to have like a library covered with books and seats and a reading area.
08:16So now we have some pictures from our local witch, which is also an artist and a painter.
08:27She used to be the owner.
08:28So her and her husband used to run the old hotel booth there.
08:32And they live right by the waterfall.
08:36And then here is going to be like a sitting area.
08:42People can sit down, have lunch and of course enjoy this beautiful view.
08:50It has taken us a lot longer time than we anticipated.
08:55And also what was not helping was we've had crazy storms.
09:00So that has delayed everything a lot.
09:05Now this here is the new building.
09:11So yeah, welcome.
09:19So I would like to show you which will be the, I think, the best room with the best view.
09:24We can come up here.
09:29So I think this will be my room when we're, when there's low season and not a lot of guests.
09:33I think this will be my room, which I would like to live in.
09:40Beautiful view.
09:41My little house as well.
09:42And then of course, yeah, we do have the black famous church here as well.
09:52So we do see like sitting in the reception, all the cars driving past the hotel.
09:58Driving past the hotel.
09:59And that's where our business has been.
10:01Sometimes people just pop in to take that one picture and then they're off to go.
10:11Like to some, to their next destination.
10:15Sometimes people just pop in to take that one picture and then they're off to go to their
10:24next destination.
10:28I think the most important thing is the quality of the tourism.
10:34We need to have a balance.
10:45We need to balance it up before it is strong, nice, but it's nice.
11:02It has to kick, right?
11:05Three, two, one, you run out of time.
11:11If you look in the cards, I'll just emerge from under the table.
11:18Magic!
11:19The man behind the scenes.
11:24Okay.
11:25Who do we have?
11:26I think we kind of need to change.
11:29Okay.
11:30Maybe make some little changes.
11:32Okay.
11:33Can you make a little star next to Bertrand?
11:35Yes.
11:36Then we have Oleswig Mjöl.
11:38That one is popular.
11:39We have rum, old-fashioned.
11:41It's that midnight sun we were going to...
11:44We decided to take it out.
11:46Yeah.
11:47And then we have the new cocktail.
11:50Yes.
11:51Which we have to, yeah, name.
11:53Yeah.
11:54Yeah.
11:55Packabooth Mjöl.
11:57Yeah, could be that.
11:58My house.
11:59Yeah.
12:00Yeah.
12:01Yeah.
12:02Yeah.
12:03Yeah.
12:04All right.
12:05Okay.
12:06How do you spell it?
12:07P, A.
12:08K, K.
12:09K, K.
12:10A.
12:11Then we will do the steiné.
12:13Yeah.
12:14He loves cognac.
12:15One.
12:16I will get...
12:18Wee!
12:19Spenal.
12:20Steiné!
12:21Oh, yeah.
12:22Oh, yeah.
12:23Oh, yeah.
12:24Oh, yeah.
12:26Oh, yeah.
12:27Oh, yeah.
12:28Oh, yeah.
12:29Oh, yeah.
12:30Oh, yeah.
12:31Yeah.
12:32Well, you get some mix.
12:33Oh, yeah.
12:35We need a mix.
12:36And then we'll learn.
12:37Báda.
12:38Báda.
12:39Hit and pull.
12:45What's that?
12:47Well, Salma says, what happened?
12:49Well, Salma says it.
12:50That's what we see.
12:51That's what we see.
12:52That's what we see.
12:55I know you can take it.
12:56Yeah.
12:57Okay.
12:58Oh, that's steiny.
13:00Oh, okay, I don't know.
13:06My name is Ragnhildur. I live here in Tegsmeifelsnes, the peninsula you are in.
13:13We are less than 4,000 people who live here in four different municipalities.
13:19And we are good at sprinting, can you say? But we are not very good at the long run.
13:25A hotel ready for like few works to be done the last minute. It's always like that.
13:31We want to have all the workers. You come from many countries.
13:37You are staying here, some for the summer, some forever. And we want to do this together.
13:44We can either have a society where we have some kind of, I'm not saying slavery,
13:50but I'm saying people who come and stay here and don't live here and don't have friends here
13:57and don't participate in the community. Or we could have a society where we are all joining like we want.
14:06And you are all part of that, as much as you want. And I think this is extremely important.
14:12I would like you to jump on that boat with me again.
14:15And then I would be happy to walk with you here and say, like, here, this happened.
14:21Yes.
14:22Yes.
14:27Like the first settlers, when they came, one of the first law was that when you saw land,
14:33you should take down the dragon head on your ship to show respect to the spirits of this new country.
14:39And I sometimes thought we should start to do something like that, to just show some respect to whatever it is
14:46that is bigger than ourselves. So, and the Björk, the singer, she had been asked, you know,
14:51have you seen hidden people? Have you seen alfs? And she says, I've never seen an alf sitting on a rock,
14:55you know, like with a red hat or something. I heard a lot of, you know, I wasn't alone.
15:02And I felt this energy. I don't believe in God or anything, but I'm not denying that there is something here.
15:10So I hope you experience that this summer.
15:32Well, I come from Latvia. And Hotel Boder was the first place where I started to work.
15:38When I came to Iceland. And I don't think that it's for everyone.
15:46People who come here, they're either run away from something or they're running towards something.
15:53And Iceland is the place where we meet.
15:56And I believe it might be from how remote the place is. And we also, we believe that the glacier has power here.
16:09Buder by itself started off as, you know, camping site. And then many owners and many people have been there.
16:21And how much culture is around this hotel. It's like, it's like the place is enchanted.
16:28It's just, you know, people want to come there.
16:32Can you tell me the story about how you came to home again?
16:50Yes, I came here camping in a tent with my boyfriend.
16:56And helping out some friends who had already rented the place.
17:02And when I woke up in the morning and I was just facing the fucking glacier.
17:09And I was like, what?
17:12And I never left.
17:15So we made it like a crazy part of creation.
17:20So, and then, uh, I couldn't do it anymore. And I sold my part and I, I left.
17:44I love it.
17:46I think.
17:50I love meeting my young friend here, Ariel.
17:54She writes books about witches and she is sort of like, maybe trying to pull it a little bit together again.
18:07I love this place. I really do. Don't you, Ariel?
18:11Yes.
18:12Yes.
18:25Look at this.
18:30Are these properties?
18:33Soaps.
18:36Old soaps.
18:37And they age very well.
18:38What are these?
18:39Yeah.
18:40What are these?
18:41I'll tell you.
18:42Treasures.
18:43Can you see?
18:44Mm-hmm.
18:45And so did you ever have, um, people coming here asking for specific spells?
18:47Oh, yes.
18:48For things?
18:49Did you ever indulge them?
18:50Uh, mostly we could.
18:51Yeah.
18:52Yeah.
18:53Yeah.
18:54Yeah.
18:55Healing spells, uh, they came in with, uh, children.
18:57And old ladies.
18:58Yes.
18:59Uh, yes.
19:00and, you can imagine what they came in here to ask for.
19:01Yeah.
19:02Yeah.
19:03Yeah.
19:04Yeah.
19:05Yeah.
19:06Yeah.
19:07Yeah.
19:08Yeah.
19:09Yeah.
19:11Yeah.
19:12Yeah.
19:13Yeah.
19:14Yeah.
19:15Yeah.
19:16Yeah.
19:17Yeah.
19:19Yeah.
19:20can imagine what they came in here to ask for. We always tried to do what was
19:31possible for us, but we also could turn them into another direction, into the
19:40right path.
19:50And now, what are you doing?
19:54How are you doing?
19:56How are you doing?
19:59How are you doing?
20:03How are you doing?
20:08I'm doing my job.
20:10What are you doing?
20:13Are you doing it?
20:17Yes, this is what I'm doing.
20:19And I have been with 16 books and they are fine.
20:25It didn't happen to have a book.
20:27You know that we are born a lot of it.
20:29I am sure it is.
20:33How are you opening?
20:35Three.
20:37Three days?
20:38Okay.
20:39This is the island island.
20:42Yes.
20:45And it's very good.
20:47Okay, I'm going to take a look at this.
20:51Maybe we're going to eat soup.
20:54Yes, thank you. We're going to try it for you too.
20:57It's a good thing.
20:59Yes, absolutely.
21:17Oh, my friend.
21:19He's going to eat?
21:21Yes.
21:23He's going to eat this?
21:25This is a good one.
21:27This is a good one.
21:29Here's my friend.
21:31Aha.
21:33Yes.
21:37I'm going to eat this one.
21:39I like that.
21:41I like that, mom.
21:43Aha, are you going to tell me?
21:45Yeah.
21:46Hmm, I'll see.
22:16Are they going to open today?
22:22Yes, we're going to open today.
22:24No matter what, we're going to have to.
22:27And yeah, it's going to be fun.
22:29It's always a stressful period.
22:31Few hours before a place like this opens again.
22:34Your nerves are tense.
22:38But I feel like as soon as the people start to check in,
22:41everything will just flow like it did before.
22:45That is my belief.
22:47I think that, yeah, it's going to be a fun ride.
22:49Like every year, it's going to be a fun ride.
22:51Ups and downs, problems, no problems, solutions.
22:55Yeah, life, you know?
23:15We are serving the three course tonight.
23:19Shellfish soup, beef tenderloin, black rice brulee.
23:23And the five course we are serving,
23:25kirkot tartar, shellfish soup, chicken liver pate,
23:29beef tenderloin, and black rice brulee.
23:33I had very much stress on my head,
23:41because I just saw that the kitchen is not getting ready,
23:44not getting ready, not getting ready,
23:46and we just have to start on the 1st of June.
23:48Maybe it was like 29th,
23:50and we had no ceiling even in the kitchen.
23:52So I was like, guys, we are settling in soon.
23:54Like, we need this kitchen to start cooking for the guests.
24:01But we managed, we managed,
24:03so we have a very great team.
24:24So, here is the shellfish soup,
24:27with langoustine, shrimp, and green apple.
24:41Before I started to work here,
24:43my father was working here.
24:46Hello.
24:47Hello, welcome to Bullet.
24:49It's beautiful, great to be here.
24:51He loved it.
24:52He loved the atmosphere,
24:54you know, how the people were relaxed,
24:56you know, how everything was open.
24:58You know, for me now, looking back,
25:01the memories I shared with my father here,
25:04who passed away in 2020,
25:06are always an attraction to me.
25:09So, always when I think about Bullet,
25:12I think about my father,
25:13and my time with my father, you know?
25:15And so that kind of gets emotional for me, you know?
25:18But, yeah.
25:20Yeah.
25:21Yeah.
25:22The noise you have,
25:23you know,
25:24it's a little hot,
25:25you know,
25:26it's a little hot.
25:27His name is Dina.
25:28He's a little hot.
25:29He's a little hot.
25:30He's a little hot stuff,
25:31he's a little hotart.
25:32He's gonna be so hot.
25:33He's gonna be so hot.
25:34If you just have a natural help,
25:35He takes care of it,
25:36He's like,
25:37he's not gonna be so hot.
25:38.
25:40I'd like to listen to my own words.
25:42.
25:44I'll be playing this time
25:48...
25:50...
25:54...
25:56...
25:58...
26:00...
26:02...
26:06Oh, oh, oh, oh.
26:36For me, it's the perfect place to be and live and work, I think, yeah, yeah, you can
27:03be just sitting outside and all of a sudden, like, you see something and you just appreciate
27:09it and enjoy it and, yeah, those small, small special moments.
27:33Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
28:01Oh, oh, oh, oh.
28:08Oh, oh, oh.
28:15Oh, oh, oh.
28:22Oh, oh, oh.
28:29Oh, oh, oh.
28:36Oh, oh, oh.
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28:51Oh, oh, oh.
28:55Oh, oh, oh.
28:59Oh, oh, oh.
29:06Oh, oh, oh.
29:08Oh, oh, oh.
29:12Oh, oh.
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