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bit of a meteor shower happening while we were there the photo station  yusssssss ipad and mash it really did feel this ridix clarence and her horsey Carried away with the night photos much? Right well, I don't really have much to about this time, again. Horse riding day. It was pretty fun. I am still the most unco horse rider tho hahaha. We got there and dressed up in these thick as jumpsuit things, which ended up being way too hot. It was super cold and sposed to get windy, so me and Claire rugged up only to have it backfire and I had to take half of it off halfway along the trek. My horse was called what sounded like Dilmah. I swear it was the slow one haahha. And it kept tripping over when we got to the rocky parts, which again brought up the awesome me imagining being trapped under a horse with a broken leg type thoughts haha. Didn't happen obviously. Still dancing! We met up with the others after...

Reykjavik

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randomly in the middle of town giving claire her teeny tiny drink. one of which i later dropped in haha ewwww lovin it in the spa haha wheres your hands at mash? claires not happy hahaha oh dear this looks yuck but is actually great. claire claire claire haha sammyo witha face mask on  Ooo long time no write. I'd like to say I've been busy but, it's more like incredibly lazy. Oh well. So, where was I....Iceland's capital Reykjavik. Yep. Exploration time. In the morning we found a little cafe that was just down the road from where we were staying, and in true traveller style, Claire and I ordered the 'Icelandic Country Breakfast' or some similar name. YUM! It was made up of tasty rolls and cheese and a few other things, but the main attraction was a bowl of this stuff call Skyr. When we ordered it I had no idea what it was, it could have been a roast goat for all I knew, but what...

icelands tourist trap - the golden circle

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clarence on top of random old doom hut out the back laters fagrahlio gullfossss alien grass who me? on this blog? naaaah moniezzzzzzz glasssssy site of the first parliament building   i tried ok k, i was getting sprayed on here. oops.   We sadly left our amazing farmhouse behind and started the drive to Reykjavik. We were taking Icelands most knows tourist trap, the 'Golden Circle'. This is a route you drive, where the scenic attractions are naturally one after the other. Obviously it was coming in to winter and colder days when we were there, so the first place we stopped off - Gullfoss - was freeeeeezing. It was windy as ever so that didn't help, so everyone rugged up with hats and double jackets and scarves and mittens and ran to the gift shop. Mmmm immediate thawing of the face. So many insanely cool hats. Like all kinds of soft soft fur and crazy man designs and seal skins and even my favourite c...