The deadline to respond to Islandsbanki's and Lands-virkjun's Discover Iceland expedition has closed but it is amazing the lengths Bill Symington and Ingvar Ragnarsson have gone to drum up interest. Anybody watching the business round-up on BBC1's breakfast news this week will have seen Declan Curry, its bespectacled analyst, standing unwittingly in front of one of Islandsbanki's infamous do-it-yourself Viking helmets. Leak wonders how the horny helmet got there but we got the message and quickly RSVPed. One dealer certain not to make the Icelandic trip is ABN Amro's new head of desk, Anthony Everill. As if the pressures of a new job were not enough, Mrs Everill is providing more stress - a second baby boy. The baby is due around the same time as the market uproots to Iceland and while the likes of Gavin Eddy mix their Brennivin with whisky, Anthony will be left mixing water with powdered milk.
August 09, 2002