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This one WILL be short. We got up about 0400 to get ready to head to the airport – course it was as light as it would have been at 07000-0730 back home. No problems and we took off about 1.5 hours late – but who cares as we have a seven-hour layover in Minneapolis […]

Well, this is the last day so this will be a low key day without much to do. This morning we went on a Reykjavik walking tour of about two hours. The tour is done by a history major at the university so they are pretty knowledgeable. Things like parliament, oldest street, neighborhood, house, old […]

Well two more days and we are headed home! Certainly looking forward to heading back home. We will Miss Iceland as it has been a great trip. This morning we took the bus to the Reykjavik Botanical Gardens. Very large as compared to the Botanical Gardens we saw last week in Akueyri the north coast. […]

Today thought it would be slower – not – had plenty to do. Started off by going to a really neat museum, ‘First Settlement’, which was an incredible display of how the first settlers may have lived? It was based on the excavation of a first settlement archaeological site in Reykjavik site. Very high tech […]

Well, Happy Birthday to all! Though it was going to be a laid-back day – not. The morning certainly was as all we did was go to the National Art Gallery – quite small. The principal exhibition was by Icelandic artists over the years. Had one exhibit by some Belgium artist that would have been […]