I have posted my slides from a 12 day Sierra Club group visit to Iceland 
in June at

http://s111.photobucket.com/albums/n154/ranecurl/

There are two albums, each for about half the trip. Open one and you can 
choose SlideShow and go through them pretty fast! They are all titled, 
especially for location, but that might not mean much unless you have a 
map.

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 Interesting pictures.  I think I once knew, but had definitely forgotten,
 that Iceland is more or less treeless.  

 Nice falls pictures of Haifoss and Gullfoss.  It definitely looks like an
 interesting place to explore, and has long been on my list of places I'd
 like to visit.

I like Thjodveldisbaer..

It is a reproduction of a building at Stong from ca. 1180 that was buried 
by the vast eruption of Hekla, which drove people out of a third or more 
of the island. We also visited the Stong site, which is a dig over which 
they have built a shed for protection from the weather.

The High Falls look nice too.  Is that where the hydropower plant is?

Haifoss is a couple of kilometers from the Sultartangavirkjun hydropower 
station on the Thjorsa river. Haifoss is on a tributary that joins the 
Thjorsa downstream of the station.

 How large does an Icelandic (Islandik?) scrabble board have to be?
 They've got a serious thing for compound words..

Eg skil ekki..

The Icelandic Scrabble set is shown at 
http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/details/icelandic/ It has 32 letters plus 
the blank.

Many of the large compound words are proper nouns, which are not allowed 
in Scrabble. 

I'm sure I could deal with the "th" character (is it called a thorn,
like in old english?) but having eleven vowels to pick from makes it
seem likely you'd never have the one you needed..

There are two "th" characters, the thing that looks like p, which is the 
unvoiced th as in cloth, and the d with a line through the arm, which is 
the voiced th as in clothe. (I was amazed that I could copy and paste 
these special Icelandic characters into the titles on my slides in 
PhotoBucket, if I found them on the web.)

Our guide and driver gave me an example of multiple meaning of some words 
in Icelandic with a *sentence* that was a string of ohs, or rather it 
sounded like "oh oh oh oh..." (I don't remember how many - it was a 
children's rhyme about a cow, I think). I've tried to look it up on the 
web but I'm not sure how all the ohs are each spelled.

The first one rane mentioned is thorn, the other edh or eth.

More than you want to know about "th" is at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_English_th  After studying
that, you can take the quiz at http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/365.html

Grate shots!
What kind of camera do you use?

Jorge, if you're interested in cameras and/or photography, do stop by the
photography conference sometime. Type j photography   at the prompt. 

I used a  1.3  Mpixel Olympus  - the D340-R, set at its lowest resolution
(an 8 MB card is good for some 100+ shots) as I was more interested in lots
of shots than high resolution, since I expected only to view them on a
computer. 

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