Reflections on our family’s adventures as we live, work, and play around the world
Reykjavik’s Harpa music hall and conference center is right on the water and stunning, inside and out. According to the guide of this walking tour of Reykjavik, there was some controversy about whether to finish the partially-constructed hall after the banking collapse in 2008. However, now that the building is finished and acknowledged as lovely, she says that pretty much everyone claims to have been in support of it.
I’m pretty sure that when you are leaving Iceland, customs will detain you if you can’t prove that you’ve taken at least one photo of Hallgrimskirkja, the church that is the most famous landmark in Reykjavik. So, here you go Iceland customs:
Because we’ve been heading north since February, this is our third experience of “the arrival of Spring” this year. It’s heartening every time.
We’ve spent the past month in a neighborhood that’s a 30-minute walk from Reykjavik’s town center. The structure of this city assumes the vast majority of people will have a car, but there are enough options – buses, pedestrian bridges, biking paths – that’s it’s possible to be carless, even if it’s not the norm.
We spent the past week in a summerhouse near Geysir, on a holiday from both work and most of the Internet. The concept of vacation sounds a little strange since we’re on a long-term trip around the world but, in reality, this was the first time that I’ve taken more than a few days away from work in almost two years. It was nice to disconnect from the wider world and instead spend some time connecting with each other.
We started our trip by spending almost 10 months in Europe. Here are some of the resources and possessions that we found most useful, some toddler-related, some not.
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We landed in Costa Rica on Sunday evening. While we had to make a quick change of plans because of flooding in Sarapiqui, we’ve been enjoying Monteverde before heading to our new home-for-a-month tomorrow.
We’re in Costa Rica after a three-week stay in the United States. In my head, I’ve divided the trip into two parts; the first part where we were hanging out in Europe (I’ll count Istanbul as Europe, even if Sarcozy has his doubts) and the second part in which we head out into the rest of the world.
