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Recent Posts Tagged With 'reykjavik'
A LAST STROLL, BLUE LAGOON & AWAY
ICELAND - AUGUST 2008"MOVIE STARS in Reykjavik's main shopping street""ICELANDIC DESIGN""SCULPTURE""PERLAN - The Pearl, built in 1988 and open to the public in 1991, is a unique building, with six huge tanks storing natural hot water for heating the ...
ICELANDIC COLOURS
REYKJAVIK - AUGUST 2008After a stroll showing offices and public buildings, most of them white or grey, it's time to put some colour on these Icelandic posts!"SNOW CAPED ROOF WITH BLUE - Artistic""GREY - It's a sculpture in front...""DUTY-FREE""BAR A...
STROLLING IN REYKJAVIK
REYKJAVIK - AUGUST 2008Reykjavík, founded in 1786 as an official trading town, is said to be the site of the first permanent settlement in Iceland, established around 870. With no urban development until the 18th century, the city grew in the 19th c...
FIREWORKS FESTIVAL
REYKJAVIK - AUGUST 2008After the Marathon, the concerts, the performances and fashion shows and before the traditional runtur - pub crawl -, the Menningarnótt (Reykjavik's Cultural Night) offers a display of fireworks for your delight. I've always l...
SUMMER IN REYKJAVIK
REYKJAVIK - AUGUST 2008Reykjavík, at 64°08' latitude north, is the world's most northern national capital. Located in south-western Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói Bay, it has a population of around 120,000 residents and receives around...
VELKOMIN TO ICELAND
REYKJAVIK - AUGUST 2008We landed in Iceland just before the start of the financial crisis and the country going bankrupt. This meant that the prices were still outrageously high (similar to what happened to me in Argentina, December 2001) and that ev...
