Leona Vance · Travel notes
Iceland, day three
We left the ring road just after the rain stopped and the valley turned the colour of wet slate…
I wanted to remember the sound of it more than the look…
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Iceland, day three
We left the ring road just after the rain stopped and the valley turned the colour of wet slate. I wanted to remember the sound of it more than the look — so I did both, right here on the page.
Then the wind picked up over the water — twelve seconds of it, caught on the phone and dropped straight in:
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Þingvellir National Park — where two continents drift apart
The only place on earth where the Mid-Atlantic Ridge rises above sea level, and the site of the world’s oldest parliament.
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