Reykjavik – Árbæjarsafn (ethnographic museum) Today was the hottest day of the year here, around 23 degrees! It was positively scorcio, largely blue sky and everyone seemed even happier than normal, though some sheep I saw were huffing and puffing like they’d been left in a sauna with triple layers of wooly jumpers on, poor […]
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Friday, 10th August 2012 Reykjavik I am on a plane currently flying over the Scottish Islands, possibly the Outer Hebrides. I am rather enjoying solo travel today, a sentiment demonstrated by my out of character enthusiasm for living on the tiny, remote, unpopulated island I have just flown over that seems to be the last
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Tuesday, 14th August 2012 Reykjavik – Grindavik (harbour) – Blue Lagoon Today was very much a lazy holiday day. I am currently sitting by the open harbour-front window watching terns diving for small fish that on closer inspection I can see; little slivers of mercury alerting the terns to their presence near the surface of
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(NB This is from 2012/13, my ninth trip to Iceland. I also went in January 2017 and still love it but the small city of Reykjavik was full of mainly Chinese and American tourists in search of auroro borealis and a cheap stopover between US and Europe – it was a very, very different feel
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Friday, 17th August 2012 Reykjavik It’s 6pm and if I manage to stay awake long enough to write this, it will be a small miracle. I think I had deep sleep that was occasionally interrupted and I woke too early, actually around 6am again, though I didn’t hear any untoward sounds. I went to a
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Saturday, 18th August 2012 Reykjavik I need to stay alert for another hour and 20 minutes so I can walk to the harbour to see the fireworks at 11pm. I am eating an unexpectedly tasty chocolate coated wafer and drinking a herbal tea that promises to invigorate. The rest of the city is probably out
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