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A Weekend to Remember in Iceland | Jim Keeble | Iceland, Reykjavik, Reykjavik

Then we reached our hotel in Reykjavik, the clouds cleared and above our heads, the ‘northern lights’ shimmered in an ethereal swirl of emerald whispers. It was one of the most beautiful sights I’ve ever seen.

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Dripping Yarns | AA Gill | Iceland, Reykjavik, Reykjavik

A city that looks like a tin model of Dundee, where the ground bubbles, a tree is a landmark and everything smells of rotten egg, where they have man-killer winds and grow the finest women in the universe

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Over the Rainbow: the best of Iceland | Kamin Mohammadi | Iceland, Reykjavik, Reykjavik

I knew that astronauts had trained for moon landings in the lava fields, and that it boasts Europe's largest glacier and the site of the world's oldest parliament, but the reality proved to be far and away weirder than this

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The Coolest Beauty Contest in the World | AA Gill | Iceland, Reykjavik, Reykjavik

I was sitting in a café in downtown Reykjavik and a woman I had just met gave me an odd look and said hesitantly, “You wouldn’t like to be a judge for Miss Iceland, would you, by any chance?”

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