(NB This visit was in November 2012) As Addis Ababa is quite a full-on city, I thought that perhaps the most effective way to reflect that would be to kind of list things as they come to me in terms of what I saw walking about. Dust. Potholes so big you could lose a herd […]
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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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I am writing this (November 2012) with what is hopefully the tail end of the most virulent case of diarrhea I have ever had, so it’s safe to assume there were some issues, though I’m going to attempt not to let this affect my comments on the food and drink we had. Overall, for the
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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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