Great Iceland Photos
I found these photos on Flickr. She is from, and these photos are of, Iceland. I think it conveys the general sense of the country quite well.
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Upscale Buenos Aires Shopping Mall Once Housed Torture Chambers
I saw this post in my RSS feed. This was an immensely beautiful place - on the top floor in a Museum (?) they had a Cartier-bresson exhibit, which was one of the highlight of my trip.
Photographs
We finally got the Photos’ uploaded. They can be viewed HERE!
Environmental Issues
The Sagas record that when Iceland was discovered, trees from seas to the mountains covered it. If that were indeed true, the early inhabitants did a pretty efficient job cutting down the trees for fuel and allowing their sheep to finish up by devouring young shoots. You really don’t see many trees at all around Iceland. Some birch trees and some fir-type trees here and there, but no forests to speak of.
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Pictures of our Wedding
These are all of our Iceland photos, with Wedding pictures interspersed.
Heading Home a New Bride
July 7, 2007
Well, we are back home in Seattle. I’m a bit sad today. The sun is out and the mountains are in their full glory. I am happy to live in such a wonderful country and city, but I already miss Iceland and the people we met there. They say 7/7/07 is lucky so I’ll just have to hold to that for now. Interestingly enough I’ve read a lot about how today, 07/07/07 is a day that all the churches are booked up for weddings. Even in Reykjavik our hotel concierge said that the churches have been booked for ages on this auspicious day. I feel lucky to have been married on 6/26/07 in one of the greatest places I’ve been to.
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Our last full day in Reykjavik
We got up after a very hot night (temperature wise) and hit the town. We had coffee at a new place, Mokka which was very good. I must say the coffee here is excellent. Not sure why. it could be the glacier water that they use or the milk or the coffee itself. But yum!! Would love to duplicate a Suisse mocha at home like I’ve had here. Starbucks has nothing on this place and it is so nice that there isn’t a Starbucks store in Reykjavik. I’m actually surprised that there isn’t as they plan on taking over the world.
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