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We’re off to Iceland on Thursday. That’s Iceland the country, as opposed to the supermarket.

Jenny, my older daughter works there (in the country, not the supermarket) doing research for Matis and it’ll be good to see her. She’s flying down from Akureyri where she works to Reykjavik where we’ll be staying and she’ll show us the exciting bits.

We’ve booked a tour to the Geysir and the Thingvellir, and also a trip to the Blue Lagoon. Jenny says there’s a brilliant museum telling the story of the Viking colonisation of Iceland, and an unearthed and reconstructed longhouse. I’ll take lots of photos for my class, who were impressed that I would be using my holidays to gather more information about Vikings for them.They already feel a connection with Jenny since she came in to teach them some Icelandic - the language closest to what the Vikings might have spoken - right at the start of our topic, when she was home at New Year. I like these connections.