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    Breakfast Art
    Rain stopped and there is a rainbow next to the Opera HouseLes, the street photographerWe will be here for a while, he's in the zone.City building up, walls and floors are concrete, pored in place. Cranes are everywhere.The opera house has very unusual glass walls.A little abstractJill still waiting for Les to finish. These windows are actually cells about 2 feet thick.Individual random windows are coated differently, showing color.The ceiling is covered with angled mirrors.

    We might not get out of the Opera House

    14 października 2018, Islandia ⋅ ⛅ 43 °F

    It's hard to find breakfast places...found one open early, called “Early Morning”. It is downtown, Sunday morning, no traffic and free parking. Jill had actual fried eggs and sausage. Then after driving looking for parking closer to the things we wanted to see, we came back to the same parking space and decided to walk.

    The sun came out and Les fell in love with their concert hall (Harpa). Luckily it is warm and I can sit. When we rented the car we rented a WiFi unit, which fits in my pocket. So I can navigate and look up places while walking as well as driving. By the time Les finished in the Harpa or concert hall it was lunch time.

    After lunch we went to the Settlement Center. Whild doing a new development, they found the remains of a farm’s long house from 871 in downtown. So the center was built around the archaeological dig below street level. The really nice interactive exhibits were in both Icelandic and English.

    Next we walked to the Art Museum, but we were just too tired to do six galleries. Both of us are feeling a bit under the weather...so quick walk for fish and chips and back to our room. All the restaurants are downtown and we are in the suburbs. We decided to try the local pool for a warm soak.     Czytaj więcej

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    Farm is made for tourist
    Horses in the fieldChurch on the hillsideDog on the porch.

    Horsies Horsies

    15 października 2018, Islandia ⋅ 🌧 43 °F

    The one thing that I read about before the trip was riding an Icelandic horse. I told Les I want to do that! This morning I awoke late, and with a head cold. We visited a farmasia or pharmacy after having google get us very lost for our breakfast place. Neat thing is we got to see a lot of back streets.

    We tried to make a reservations yesterday for a horse ride, but the internet was not helping, so we drove out to the farm about 15 minutes north of where we are staying. After Les talked to the “owner”, we are getting to go for a ride! He just isn’t sure if it’s on a horse... it may van tour. The little girl in me is saying horsies...horsies. As we wait for our ride Les is out taking pictures. I am drinking coffee and relaxing. Les and I are just not city people.     Czytaj więcej

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    Jill is 5' 6" (w/ hat) so you can tell these are really small horses.
    Les' feet don't quite drag the ground, but they did get wet in a stream crossing.Jill bringing up the rear at the mid point of the ride.One of 5 stream crossings.Jill captured a rainbow at the waterfall at the mid point.

    We did it, we rode ponies...

    15 października 2018, Islandia ⋅ ⛅ 43 °F

    So this afternoon we did get a 2 hour ride on Icelandic horses. When we started out it was raining so they gave us orange rain pants. But as soon as we got underway the sun came out for most of our ride. Lots of blurry pictures by Les. As short as these horses are, it still took 3 men and a boy, OK only one helper to get me on the horse. We rode long a stream, crossing it couple of times. My horse was called Sol and Les’s was Svaki (a horse use in the cable show "Game of Thrones". Ended at a small waterfall and everyone got off their horse except me...I wasn’t going to chance that I would have to walk back. I made my step goal! Well maybe it doesn’t count when the horse does the walking. We or the horses went faster back to the barn. Both Les and I were actually galloping at times. It was easier on the bottoms. Fun and just enough of a ride to not be sore. Czytaj więcej

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    Gloomy
    The plane and more passenger have arrived.

    Saying good by to Iceland

    16 października 2018, Islandia ⋅ 🌧 43 °F

    We woke at 7am today. It was raining, just like when we arrived, but no wind.

    We forgot to check in for the flight last night, so we had better do it now. The message on the phone says United does not provide check in services for other carriers and this leg is on Lufthansa.

    We finished stuffing our bags, piled into the Kia Rio and headed for the car rental. Check out there went smoothly and they gave us a van ride to the departure gates. We can recommend Lagoon Car Rentals.

    The check in is handle at self service terminals and the bag check is also self service. The only snag is that we are too early to check the bags. So we waited at “Joe and a Juice”. When the time came to check the bags, the self service bag check rejected the bags and told me to see a check person for help. That part went smoothly too.

    Now for security. This ran pretty much similar to in the States. The bags went through, Les went through and Jill got stopped for a pat down because of her bionics. Gathering the bags, we noticed the laptop, iPad and Jill iPhone are missing. Jill flagged the closest security person to ask and found they were doing a second scan on them, before returning them to us.

    After passing through the tax free store and picking up some lunch and coffee, we are now at our gate to wait for the plane. Jill sniffles are worsening to include her usual cough. Les just has minor sniffles.     Czytaj więcej

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    Welcome to Germany

    16 października 2018, Niemcy ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F

    Just like Toronto, it is dark here. The flight got in just after 8pm local time. The flight attendant said great news, you can deplane in the front or back. The only problem was our overhead stuff was several seats ahead of us and everyone ahead of us exited to the back, so we were the last to leave the plane. Then stepping out of the plane we found a stairway and a bus waiting to take us to the terminal.

    The bags were not checked through to Reno, so we had to find baggage claim. We got lost. Finally after asking direction we found baggage claim and still had to wait for the bags to show up.

    Next we needed to check in for our flight in the morning. Had to ask direction again and finally checked in at a terminal.

    Finally, were is the Sheraton Hotel? Asked for directions again and after walking at least a KM we ended up across the street from the airport at the hotel w/o going outside.

    We got to our too about 9:30 and I set my alarm for 5am and went to bed.     Czytaj więcej

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    Scotland below
    About half way to Chicago, Greenland below.

    Coming to America on a 777

    17 października 2018, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ ⛅ 45 °F

    The title is from a Mark Knopfler song. We are in the air over Scotland, perhaps our next trip out of the country. Checking the bags, going through security and boarding the plane took a half dozen passport checks. This is our first time on a wide body jet. It has 9 seats across with 2 isles and we are one row behind the bathrooms. We were not sure if we would be fed breakfast, so we ate at the airport and the had a berry pudding and fruit on the plane too. Czytaj więcej

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    Chicago Waterfront.

    Chicago

    17 października 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ☀️ 46 °F

    We successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean, another first for us. And while Les lived in Illinois for three years, he never ventured to Chicago.

    We had to go through customs and immigration, pick up our checked bags and recheck them. All-in-all, it went smoothly. Our Icelandic sweaters and caps were under the $800 limit so there was no Trump Charge.

    Now we waited for 3 hours and 45 minutes. We could have had a shorter layover, but we didn’t know how long customs would take. They did not even look in any of bags. They were interested in the fact that we rode Icelandic Horses two days ago, but Hoof and Mouth Disease does not seem to be a problem in Iceland.

    Jill had to buy a Chicago hot dog but that’s the only Midwest culture we are seeing this time.     Czytaj więcej

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    Denver / Reno / Home to Woodfords

    17 października 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ⛅ 57 °F

    Tightest leg room so far and the seats were not reclinable. Les’ knees were crammed up to the seat ahead and he tried to sleep and failed. We have been up for 19 hours so far. We have learned a lot about air travel. In Denver we got a couple of burgers at Mc Donald’s

    Les got maybe an hour of sleep on the floor at the gate waiting for the flight for Reno. The plane was late getting in, so we were later leaving Denver. Our arrival at Reno went normally, but the shuttle the Atlantis Resort waits at the side door by baggage claim in stead of front door were we were waiting. As Jill watched the shuttle bus for the Peppermill drove by an over to the side door, we realized our mistake. Jill flagged down our shuttle bus down as it was leaving empty. So we got our ride to pick up our car at the Atlantis.

    We drove home arriving about 10:30 pm, 27 1/2 hours after waking up in Frankfort Germany. Glad to be home, but the kids are still vacationing and we miss them. Overall, the trip to Iceland was great, we may return there some day.     Czytaj więcej

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