sun voyager

[pilvikki]

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Sun Voyager (Sólfar) is sculpture by Jón Gunnar Árnason (1931-1989). Sun Voyager is a dreamboat, an ode to the sun. Intrinsically, it contains within itself the promise of undiscovered territory, a dream of hope, progress and freedom. The sculpture is located by Sæbraut, by the sea in the centre of Reykjavík, Iceland.


sod, missed it!

[Ice.Maiden]

Isn't that lovely? I must send it to my friend who's going to Iceland in the New Year!

[pilvikki]

i'd love to go back for a longer visit...

it's a country for thinking.

:think:

[Ice.Maiden]

I think that places like that have a stark beauty all of their own. Not sure which part my friend's going to, but she's so excited because she's never been so far north before. She's going with her sister, and they've paid less than £400 each for almost a week there. It'll be lovely for them.

[StVandal]

I would love to go to iceland! My roommate went a couple years ago (he is Norwegian) and loved it. He took plenty of photos all over the island.. it's so beautiful! Have you seen the crack in the Earth where the first Icelandic parliament used to meet?

[Ice.Maiden]

No! What/where's that then George (apart from Iceland, of course).

[StVandal]

Southwestern Iceland. Don't quote me on this, but I believe it's the spot where two tectonic plates meet (and are drifting apart).. the area has a lot of volcanic activity as well! How neat is that? A bunch of vikings get together to form a government and choose a volcano as a meeting spot! hahaha..

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So pretty!
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[Ice.Maiden]

LOL! it probably warmed the place up back then!

Lovely photos, but look how precariously perched some of those houses are!

[pilvikki]

yes i was there, i have more pictures, but not up on photobucket yet. one side is part of the americas, the other side europe. i'll dig them out tomorrow.

remind me if i forget. :roll:

[Ice.Maiden]

PICS Vikki, PICS! : )

[pilvikki]

oh sod, i did forget! well, there's a surprise...

i'll get on it right now.

:tiptoe:

[Ice.Maiden]

:shock:

:???:

:tiptoe:

[pilvikki]

easier said than done... the pictures were in the camera i gave squeaks. where's the camera? - i don't remember...

finally punkin thought it would be in her screaming pink coach bag.

oh goodie! where's that?

oh, i donno...

:doh: :doh: :doh:

[Ice.Maiden]

:lol: Sounds a bit like me.

[pilvikki]

it drives me insane! since i can't remember shite, i want things organized.

she said.

:kay: :wall: :aabrog: :lmao3:

[Ice.Maiden]

Mwhahahaha!!!! I'm the opposite. I hate things to be in orderly fashion. My table and desk can get loaded with this and that, but I know where things are because it's derived from my own chaos, but I can forget where I left a key, for example - but it might be staring me in the face!!

My OH drives me mad. If you looked into his wardrobe and drawers, you'd find nicely laundered piles of stuff - socks together, shirts hung by colour. He moves them round if someone puts them in the wrong place. Now MY wardrobe and drawers are full of exciting things which surface every so often; things I swear I never had!! : )

[pilvikki]

i want to be as organized as your OH, but alas, it usually ends up more like yours. when i lived by myself, it was great to find things exactly where i'd put it.

no more, now i put things in SAFE places.

:sob:

[Ice.Maiden]

Oh LOL!!!

They say something about a tidy person having a tidy mind - whatever that's supposed to mean - but then they say genius works with chaos, so I'll stay with the latter! Well ... I can always pretend ....