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The view from my window seat as we depart Newark
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Looking out from our Icelandair flight preparing to depart Newark
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A sculpture outside Keflavík International Airport, representing an airplane hatching from an egg
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At the start of the 45 minute ride from Keflavík International Airport (a former US military airport) to downtown Reykjavik
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Keflavík International Airport is a long distance from the city
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Sjukrabill is Icelandic for ambulance as the language makes their own words rather than deriving them from other languages
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Most native Icelanders are related and are descended from the few early Norse arrivers from the first permanent settler, Ingólfr Arnarson, came from Norway to Iceland to settle in the year 874
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A Viking statue in front of the Saga Museum
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Reykjavic had a large number of wonderful murals on display
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I never figured out if this was a tiny church of something else
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Mural on the side of the Phenomenon Gallery
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Phenomenon Gallery
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Sæta Svínið Gastropub
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Carved birds on Sæta Svínið Gastropub
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Hlöllabátar is a sandwich shop at Ingólfstorgi, also known as Ingolfur Square, is a small plaza in the center of Reykjavík, Iceland
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This building behind a fabric facade reminds me of the work being done on the Hanseatic Museum in Bergen, Norway
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Sadly I did not get to try this sandwich
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Sæta Svínið Gastropub served a platter of Whale, Puffin, Arctic Char and Horse tartar
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The center point of the city of Reykjavik
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We passed these former marina warehouses that house a number of restaurants as we walked back to our hotel to finally get to check in
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You better remember to push the button to go to your room in the Grandi by Center Hotels
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Inside room 416
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Some of the view from our room
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This salad served in the Mýrin restaurant in the hotel
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The view of dusk over Reykjavik from the window of room 416 of the Grandi by Center Hotels
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Night from the hotel in Reykjavik
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When leaving the 4th floor the elevators reminded us that we were going places
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View outside on our first morning in Reykjavik
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I woke to this view of Reykjavik and Hallgrimskirkja, the amazing cathedralik and the
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The cathedral steeple towers over Rekjavik