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Swimming and Flowers

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June 20th 2016
Today brought a slow start. Judith was up until 12am watching the sunset - see the first photo. Others stayed up until 10:30ish. We discovered yesterday that Sam loves black currant Ribena - thus the photo of him trying to keep it from Mike. Once we got moving we traveled to Akureyri. There we visited the botanical gardens - beautiful. The alpine plants exhibit had items from all over the ... read more

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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