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| Keflavik Airport COVID-19 Testing
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| I got the OK later that day.
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| "Walk with a Viking" guide
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| Harpa Concert Hall
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| Waterfront and Harpa Concert hall
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| View from West side of Lake Tjörnin
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| "Elf Stone" relocated from road-building site
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| Einar Jónsson sculpture garden
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| Einar Jónsson sculpture garden
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| Fríkirkjan í Reykjavík (Lutheran Church)
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| Souvenir shop Thor
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| Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs
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Finance Ministry: "Trophies"
An art installation, unrelated to 2008.
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| Finance Ministry carved door
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| Ingólfr Arnarson throws his High Seat Pillars overboard
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| The pillars are found at what becomes Reykjavik
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| Road to Hallgrimskirkja
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| Hallgrimskirkja
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| Hallgrimskirkja
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Leif Ericcson statue
A gift from the USA, 1930.
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| Hallgrimskirkja interior
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| Hallgrimskirkja interior
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Kaffitar: My regular morning Breakfast Stop
A "Swiss Mocha" and a donut
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| Sæta Svínið Gastropub Icelandic Platter
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Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur: Famous hot dog stand
Visited by Bill Clinton in 2004
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| Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur: hot hot dog stand
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| Tapas barinn: Octopus
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| Tapas barinn: Icelandic Foal
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| The infamous Cheese-and-Puffin Sandwich
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| Tiny bronze statue. Thor?
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| Thor or Christ?
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| Drinking Horn (1598)
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Bishop of Holar and his 3 wives (1685)
Actually sequential, but painted in parallel
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In situ hall foundations from the earliest settlement times.
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| Remains of a 10th c Hall
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| 10th c Hall
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Base of a turf wall from circa 817 ad
The oldest known structure in Iceland
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| Puffin cruise boat
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| Puffins on the wing
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| Frantically flapping wings
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| Icelandic Coastguard ship
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An unexpectedly interesting small museum.
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| Maritime Museum entrance
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| The 17th c Skalholt Bishop lived well!
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| Eimskipafélag Íslands hf. (Icelandic Steamship Co.) Flag (1914-1990)
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| A small section on the Cod Wars
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| Cod Wars Weapon: Trawl Wire Cutters
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A fascinating Lava Tube Tour, with Damian and Premmi of
G Spot Iceland
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| Leiðarendi entrance
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| Tiny lava stalagtites on ceiling.
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| Different colors of cooling lava
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| Guide Premmi
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| Ceiling crack
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| Variegated fallen rock
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| Memorial marker for stolen stalagmite
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| Small surviving stalagmite
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| Very orange section, near exit
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| Scotsman, near exit
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This was a continuation of the Lava Tube Tour, with Damian and Premmi.
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| Kleifarvatn Lake: “Iceland‘s Loch Ness”
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| A drink of warm sulphurous acidic water
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| Seltún Geothermal Area
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| A bubbling mud pool
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| Intrepid guides Damian and Premmi
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| Boiling eggs in a Hot Spring (5 MB, 3 sec)
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The Blue Lagoon
Fully of milky silicate water, from power plant
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| View to Svartsengi Geothermal Power Plant
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| Svartsengi Geothermal Power Plant
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| Hellisheiði Geothermal Power Station
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| Great analsysis of Geothermal Iceland
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| Geothermal Usage - District heating is the largest
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| Used heating water is used to warm streets
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| Condensor + Turbine + Generator
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Spinning 45 MW drive shaft
In gap between turbine and generator
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| Photo-bombing Scotsman
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A trip inside the magma chamber of Þríhnúkagígur (Thrihnukagigur). When the volcano last erupted 4000 years ago, the magma didn't solidy inside the main magma chamber,
but instead drained away further down. So the magma chamber is empty and
enterprising Icelanders now lower tourists down 400 ft to the interior. There is a narrow entry slot
at the top and then the interior bells out into a large cavern
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| Þríhnúkagígur (Thrihnukagigur)
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| The walk over: Collapsed lava tube
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| Approaching Thrihnukagigur
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The elevator
(A converted highrise window washer.)
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| We are carefully safety-lined over
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| Looking down...
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| The entry slot is tight.
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| Slot wall.
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| The lift returns up the narrow slot
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| Down on the cavern floor
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| Scotsman in Þríhnúkagígur
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| Scotsman in Þríhnúkagígur
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| Looking up...
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| Our lift returns
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| Looking down through the narrows...
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| Lift side tires guide us up a slight knee
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| Carefully safety-lined off the lift
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| Safely back to my loyal Suzuki Vitara
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Ring Road
