This week Tina is asking us for something Cold – and cold it is in Sweden now. But where I live it almost never gets below -20C. In recent years the climate has changed and our winters send us very little snow, and temperatures mostly around zero (+-0C). Gone are my childhood days when skiing […]Read Post ›
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Steep
Last week Amy challenged us to share images of the countryside and/or a small town. This week Tina is hosting, and she is ”…asking you to look a bit farther afield. Each of us at some point has visited a place that holds special memories. It may have been a small town, a big city, […]Read Post ›
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things Found on a Farm
Hvalfjörður is situated in the west of Iceland, and the fjord is approximately 30 km long and 5 km wide. The place has an interesting history. During WWII, a naval base of the British and American navies could be found in this fjord. One of the piers built by the United States Navy is today used by […]Read Post ›
To me, Magical goes well with Countryside – I am a country girl. Even if I love to visit big cities, I know where I belong. This week, Amy is our host, and as I often post about my own countryside, you will get some pieces of Icelandic countryside instead. Iceland is a bit more […]Read Post ›
In Jules Verne’s A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Stapi is the last stop on the route the protagonists take before they climb Snæfellsjökull and enter the interior of the planet through a tunnel in the crater. We didn’t intend to try any of these possibilities, but to hike along the coast line […]Read Post ›
Amanda ask us for a portrait of Blue. Blue is not my favorite colour to wear, but in Nature it is Green and Blue for me. And the image had to come from Iceland this summer. The ‘Friendly Friday Photo Challenge’ is launched every second Friday here at: Something to Ponder About, and every […]Read Post ›
Hunting hot springs in Autumn would have been great – but left them in Iceland. In Sweden it is getting colder now, and there is no more bathing in the sea…so, back to Iceland memories! We had read about a very little hot pool, hidden in Landbrotalaug not far from the volcano Eldborg on the […]Read Post ›
