The beach near Vik has some really great views!

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Time to get out of the city again and onto yet another tourist bus trip!
One of the sights we stopped at was just the tip of the glacier called Sólheimajökull. This was basically just to get an idea of what it looks like; for a closer look you could do a glacial walk trip, but I'll wait with that until it's a bit warmer -- it'll be cold enough as is.

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More sightseeing around the corner...

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A few touristy images of the city itself, perhaps?

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Early November the days were still long enough to get a bus to Mount Esja and do a little hike. Esja is the ridge you could spot in the background on previous pics, and since it's only about 1.000 meters, it's a healthy walk but nothing too crazy, ahem.

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Last week we had the shortest day of the year, like everywhere else in the Northern Hemisphere. With a sunrise at 11:22 and a sunset at 15:30, that's just over four hours of daylight on the 22nd of December, 2009. I thought it might be interesting to take my camera to work and take pictures throughout the day to show you what that looks like in reality...

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Going to the other end of the island, and saying goodbye.

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...variations on the theme...

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Višey is a small island off the coast of Reykjavik; a five minute ferry trip and you're there. It still succeeds in getting you away from the "city", even though it's basically just a couple of smallish hills and vegetation made of dry sticks. It's a nice walk to follow the encircling trail, and enjoy the amazing view.

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Right now I'm about 6 weeks behind on the blog --not too bad, it used to be four months-- but yesterday I was off on a walk and "discovered" that our local pond, Tjörnin, has frozen over. Probably for some time already. Mmyeah, I got sidetracked and never made it to wherever I was going. So I thought I'd jump the queue and show these asap, so at least you get an idea of what it looks like right here, right now. These pics were taken between 15:00 and 15:30...

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Reykjavik is occupying a little peninsula, it's not much more than a tiny bump off the "mainland" and so it's a pretty small town. It turns out it's not small enough yet, though, because the very tip of the peninsula is technically speaking another township called Seltjarnarnes. The tip of that, in turn, is Grotta, a breeding area for birds that's closed to the public in May and June.

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Reykjavik is really tiny, so if you walk away from its main axis for like 2 minutes, you end up on a nice path that traces around the peninsula.

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OMG kawaii!

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Next thing people think of when you say "Iceland": geysers!

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