There are a limited number of roads available on the Snaefellsnes peninsula, especially in winter: the 54, the 56, the 58; the 574 through Snaefellsnes […]
Author: Kij Johnson
Stykkisholmur.
We drove up from Reykjavik yesterday: a mildly stressful hour as we got our ducks in a row–picking up the car and driving back to […]
Yesterday: Reykjavik, day three.
This is my fourth visit to Reykjavik, which changes things. Gone is the astonishment of so beautiful and new a place: what are these mountains? […]
Iceland, day two.
Slept sixteen hours — the longest I have slept in my life that I was neighter sick nor a child. Since then we have ambled […]
Reykjavik, day one.
Overnight flight got in at 6:30 this morning, and I got to the flat at 9, still in pitch darkness. Unpacked, set up wifi, had […]
Many announcements, much wow.
Last week was lost to a combination of too much news and a sort of failure to thrive that’s been going on for weeks and […]
Rest and retrieval.
(This cat was from Edinburgh last year: I am not looking at newer photos because then I’ll have to deal with my feelings about losing […]
This week gets the angry baby pic.
When I was a baby and small child, Mom had a Minox camera, which took closeups better than almost anything else. There are therefore lots […]
Falling, or a small trip.
Fall came, in an icy blast that I was not ready for. I mean that literally: the batteries in my thermostat had failed, but I […]