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Reykjavik, a photography walk

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I'm out for a walk around Reykjavik on this, my penultimate day in Iceland.  Perhaps to make up for Iceland's long and dark winters, houses of Reykjavik are painted lively colors.  It is not Nyhavn but it is very pretty.  I pass a children's playground which I also find colorful and pretty. I have noticed that Icelandic houses usually have absolutely no landscaping.  Not much grows in this latitude.  This house in Reykjavik is an exception. Reykjavik has a park with a lake, also with landscaping. The park has sculptures I guessed that this one was called "blockhead".  I was wrong.  It is called "unknown bureaucrat". I'm thinking that this is either Lancelot or Elaine (you have to be from Iowa State). Reykjavik City Hall has been built out into the lake which was controversial at the time. After a break at Te & Kaffi, the Icelandic version of Starbucks, ... I am off to the National Museum of Iceland ... which has many exhibits on the history of Ic
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Churches and more churches

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Today is churches.  If you don't like churches, please skip today and join again tomorrow.  I am on my way back to Reykjavik to get my mandatory COVID test which the USA requires for admission.  Yes, even of vaccinated citizens.  It is not science.  It is politics.  It is a three hour drive so I have planned a couple of church photo stops to break up my drive. This is Oddakirkja which I think is the prettiest church today.  I am putting it first because I have noticed that Google features the very first photo in the blog entry.  Oddakirkja is located in Odda.  Odda is several kilometers off of the main highway.  You have to know about Odda to get here.  As far as I can tell, it is the only thing in Odda.  It is well preserved.  They have a large parking lot.  And most importantly for me, they have a WC. A rustic outbuilding at the church. Lambs.  Cute little lambs.  I have been seeing young lambs with their parents throughout the week.  They are so cute.  And they are very shy.  I
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