{"id":9666,"date":"2023-10-06T08:47:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T12:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9666"},"modified":"2023-12-17T15:36:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T20:36:02","slug":"retirement-celebration-part-3-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/retirement-celebration-part-3-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement Celebration Part 3: Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Just south of the Arctic Circle is Iceland, which is where our travels took us next. We spent about a week, and went the whole way around. The last big trip we took pre-Covid included Iceland, and it was nice to return and see some new parts of the country. Still no Northern Lights, though. There just wasn’t much darkness at night. We’ll have to go back in the winter and keep our fingers crossed.<\/p>\n

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Clockwise from upper left: Viking ship sculpture “Sun Voyager” \u00a0in Reykjavik waterfront, Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, fence made out of a whale skeleton in Djupivogur, a Thai food delivery hearse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Iceland is like another planet. They have volcanoes, glaciers, hot springs, boiling mud pots, geysers, ice caves, and black sand beaches. We can’t recommend it highly enough. The people are really nice, too. At a charity shop in the Westfjords we found a stash of used vinyl, which our younger son collects. Our Icelandic is severely lacking, so we’re not sure exactly what we bought for him. (We opted not to buy the one record with a title in English, a gospel group from Allentown PA.)<\/p>\n

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Godafoss waterfall, the surface of Mars (aka sulphur vents), black sand beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We had one more epic stop before returning home. Read all about it next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just south of the Arctic Circle is Iceland, which is where our travels took us next. We spent about a week, and went the whole way around. The last big trip we took pre-Covid included Iceland, and it was nice to return and see some new parts of the country. Still no Northern Lights, though. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326],"tags":[426,564],"class_list":["post-9666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-as-a-team","tag-road-trip","tag-travelogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9667,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions\/9667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}