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Published: June 15th 2017
Not much to report today. Spent the day in Reykjavik doing laundry, sending post cards and shopping for knick knacks. We were amused to find only one laundromat in Reykjavik (the biggest city in Iceland), and it only had 4 washers! I guess Icelanders think washing clothes is for wimpy tourists. Had a nice flight to Dublin and got in close to midnight. These kids are getting good at burning the midnight oil. We of course did the obligatiry Ireland task: enjoyed a lovely, well-poured, full body, frothy, creamy, dark and viscous Guinness. Ah.......
In lieu of adventure blogs, we offer a few small tidbits and anecdotes about Iceland:
- We never saw the night or the stars
- Toilet paper is stronger
- All tap water is drinkable but some has sulfur
- Gas is crazy expensive just like everything else
- Water everywhere
- No trees, because of deforestation and hot lava, but there are a few birch trees for a liquor for which Ginger drank with ease
- One cop and he looked like Mr. Hermanson
- BTW there are Icelandic doppelgangers everywhere.
- All Iceland music sounds like Enya
- 32 letter alphabet but no use
of C, Q, W and Z is dying out - have a different letter for most common vowel sounds
- More sheep than people
- Iceland sits on the ridge of two tectonic plates and is being pulled apart.
- Glacier driving is a sport, by manly men
- Never had to get Icelandic Kronas. Credit card accepted everywhere
- When writing numbers, they use commas where we use periods and periods where are we use commas
- Geneva top 3
- 1. Natural hot spring river
- 2. Hike to secluded waterfall (off the beaten trail)
- 3. Walk behind waterfall and hobbit houses
- Indy top 3
- 1. Blue Lagoon
- 2. Iceberg Lagoon Jökulsárlón
- 3. Walk behind waterfall and hobbit houses
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Reading you is a daily event
Love to read about your exciting adventurers makes you wonder what my life must be like. I have never traveled with kids but i assume its not easy you seem to be adjusting to the travelust. I dont know what country builds bombers with passenger windows must be somekind of combination where tourist can watch while countries are being bombed. Entertainment some folks will watch anything. Dad