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, 11th August 2012 Reykjavik – Blue Lagoon – Alafoss (wool shop and Sigur Ros) – Gljufrasteinn (Haldor Laxness museum) Not that you will need or want to know, but I am writing this in a distracted state with the most bubbly, gurgly, upset tummy imaginable. I have had to rush to the toilet 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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