Iceland - July 2017


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The Sun Voyager

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The Harpa Concert Hall

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Unusual design elements in The Harpa Concert Hall

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Concert Hall, Harpa

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Ugly trolls on the streets of Reykjavik :)

church

church

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Leif Eriksson the first European to discover North America (and 500 years before Columbus!)

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Hallgrimskirkja

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Reykjavik house

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Street art is a thing in Reykjavik

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View from the church tower

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Vicious Vikings on the streets of Reykjavik

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Ulfarsfell

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Hostel humour

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Icelandic isolation

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Lava flow set in stone

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Waterfall, first of many

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Don’t touch!

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Geysir-not-geyser

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Gullfoss

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Black sand beaches are the norm

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Vestmannaeyjar archipelago

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Behind the waterfall - brilliant!

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Glacier

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You have been warned!

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Glacier Lagoon

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This brilliant blue iceberg flipped only an hour before, hence the amazing colour!

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We tasted 1000 year old ice. Tasted like…ice?

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Diamonds on the beach

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Ice lounge

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Umm?

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Sheep in Iceland come in threes apparently

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Whooper Swan

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Respect!

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Take a closer look

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Yep.

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Fire and Ice

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Because Puffins!

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Thief gulls!

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A circus of puffins (aka an improbability of puffins. Whaaaa?)

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Twins!

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It works!

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Vending machine booty!

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Heidi hole

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Heidi

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Cheesey snacks and tiny puffin. I’m ready for anything!

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Rainbow road

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Eider

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Icelandic hand knits

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Look again!

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Lava fields

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Geothermal!

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Jon Snow’s sex cave

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There is a third one just out of the shot

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Midnight

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Husavik

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So many puffins!

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You can see how they get the name ‘Humpback'

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Curlew

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I spy

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Icelandic ‘delicacy’ - loaded hotdog

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Thermal thwimming

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Micro-brewery and bar

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My new best friends

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Icelandic horses are long-lived and hardy

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Sia

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Those eyes!

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This volcano last erupted 3-4000 years ago. I think we were safe.

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Bardur Snaefellsas statue - I wouldn’t come up to his waist. He’s big

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To reach the waterfall (see the spray in the distance?) you had to wade into the river, then cross on the pole in the foreground.

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We didn’t btw, wade and balance

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Whaaaa?

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Bye bye gorgeous girl

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