I felt it was about time for this.
ALL OF A SUDDEN IT’S FALL!
Seriously. It’s an overcast, rainy, blustery day, like we’ve suddenly been transported into late September. In fact, rainy and blustery enough to force me to change one of the windshield wipers on my car which has been toast for the better part of the summer, but which I haven’t really needed before now. I’ll have a longer post a bit later, but in the meantime it’s 13°C [55F]. Sunrise was at 4.51 this morning and sunset is due for 10.14 this evening.
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Wow, complete strangers offer to bring you stuff from abroad. How sweet (and slightly creepy). Have you ever taken anyone up on this offer? Oh, if someone from the states offers to bring me something, the list gets wery, wery long!
Only people I’ve already met – online or otherwise.
I’m traveling to Reykjavik during the last 2 weeks of September. Do you want anything from Canada?
naah, it’s just a short break in the summer (I hope)
I laughed when I read this, Alda…. and I did NOT ask for any advice when we came to Iceland in May. But one of the thrills for me was visiting the National Museum and finding (and buying) your book of legends in the gift shop! Thanks for all the info you’ve provided in the blog. I must have absorbed some of it by osmosis. And we loved your country.
LOL!
Hi Alda,
My fault I’m afraid – I made a deal with the devil that I’d have gorgeous weather for my stay in Iceland – which ended on the 6th
But up until then – the weather was spookily gorgeous – and on a holiday weekend too!
It was good to go back and see how you’re all getting on through the kreppa – I only wish my fellow Brits were as phlegmatic as the Icelanders – and had the sense to sometimes putting all their troubles behind them and getting out into the countryside.
Speaking of which. Is it my imagination or are Icelandic children utterly fearless? Saturday in Þórsmörk and the place was filled with four or five year old children stamping along mountain paths without a care in the world – happy Vikings each and every one of them. Here in Britain the place would have been roped off, hazard signs erected and the whole of Landmannalaugur paved with bark chips in case any one fell over. (And as for those hot springs
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I know which approach I prefer.
Mike.