Iceland Girls’ Trip

“We are passing the phur… Føræuorislands…”
– That dude flying the plane

My goddaughter turns 18 this year and my gift was a weekend trip to whatever destination she wanted. She chose Iceland and we spent 1,5 days shopping for vintage clothing and eating rye bread ice cream in Reykjavik, and an 8 hour guided trip around the Golden Circle.

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Australia :: Alice Springs & Uluru (Ayer’s Rock)

“Those who lose dreaming are lost”
– Aborignal Proverb

Another bucket list item – Ayer’s Rock or Uluru, as the aboriginals named it (stress on the first and third syllable, “OO-loo-ROO”).
I had no intention of climbing it as I had heard the native peoples found that offensive, but I wanted to go see it preferably as up close as I could get. And if I could get one of my “I slapped my hands on it!”-pictures I would be ecstatic.

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