Found some more pictures

I took rather a few pictures and to be honest,even  surprised myself. Some of them weren't that brilliant but still hold memories, like ducks of some description on a fjord within touching distance but failed to come out because the sun reflected too strongly, a view of a dam as we passed on the Flam railways but it jolted so hard the image is not only sideways but blurred too.
So I've gone through and found some which made me smile when I saw them, hope they make you smile too.

At the edge of a beautiful fjord, there was a garden created initially by a priest and his wife. They wanted to show Icelandics could grow vegetables and not just rely on fish and lamb.

Considered to be one of the jewels of the north, this is the view of an entire town. Our coachload of people, swelled their number considerably. In the winter they are usually cut off and rely on winter stocks of meat and fish. Even electricity which is pretty cheap in Iceland has to have back up - just in case.

Inside the main Luteran church in Reykjavik there is a very large organ with over 300 pipes! The benches you can see are reversable so when a service is going on they can face the altar; a plain affair as in all Lutheran places.



When you turned round, to the left of the altar was this beautiful stained glass window.

Like most things in Iceland, none of it is very old, so this is probably less than 60 years? I'm not sure but the techniques are very modern. Most of the work has been created by using a charcoal to burnish the coloured glass giving it its depth.

This does make me laugh. We go from rugged 7.6 litres diesel engines in falared arch, big tyred, 4x4 to these. Love it.









So, there are a few more photographs. There are loads more I promise, but not now, let's get this up and then I can look for some more which reflect happy moments.