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How I spent my Canada day

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July 1st 2010
While all of you were lighting fireworks and writing your name with sparklers and eating barbecued hot dogs and cursing black flies, I was celebrating Canada Day my own way, by crashing a cocktail party at City Hall and rubbing elbows with Canadian Ambassador Alan Bones. He's quite a swell guy, by the way, a very friendly person who kindly invited me to swing past the Canadian Embassy tomorrow mor ... read more

Europe » Iceland » Southwest » Reykjavík

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Settled by Norwegian and Celtic (Scottish and Irish) immigrants during the late 9th and 10th centuries A.D., Iceland boasts the world's oldest functioning legislative assembly, the Althing, established in 930. Independent for over 300 years, Iceland ... ... read more