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Iceland – The Golden Circle
Many people only stay a few days in Iceland. In some cases it is a one or two day stopover when travelling between Europe and North America. They usually take a trip around “The Golden Circle” which is a short day trip from Reykjavik. Within a matter of hours you can see many of the…
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Iceland – the Trip
We are finally home for a few days so I’m starting to go through pictures in the order taken, The first stop was of course Reykjavik so I will mention a couple of things that I didn’t mention previously. There was a major fire in Reykjavik in 1915 and many of the old wooden buildings…
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Geothermal Heat and Power
We just arrived at our hotel in the Westfjords area of Iceland – just outside the town of Holmavik. We had stopped at one of the two restaurants in Holmavik. Ours was a combination seafood restaurant, witchcraft museum and information centre in a relatively small building. We had seafood soup and a rhubarb cake –…
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Iceland
It’s a 7 hour flight from Vancouver to Iceland and there is a 7 hour time difference. The flight left at 7 pm and arrived around 9 am the next day. We met our friends John and Nancy from Denver at the airport and headed to the hotel. We did a tour of the city…
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More Tennis
Actually I did bring my small camera – so a few more shots: Andreescu and Bouchard before their match: A couple of shots each of Andreescu and Bouchard: Pliskova and Riske: Finally – Halep: We are off to Ottawa; it’s now all about grandchildren.
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Tennis
We’re now in Toronto watching the Rogers Cup Women’s Tennis. Today we watched two matches in the sweltering heat: Yastremska beat Konta 63 62 and Wozniaki beat Putintseva 64 62. I brought my sony point-and-shoot and took at few (thousand) pictures. It’s not my usual subject matter and I probably won’t bring the camera to…
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