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Oh Iceland, Where Do I Start?

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There's nothing more exciting than a walk-off home run.  We hit a walk-off home run with Iceland.   We got into Reykjavik early in the evening.  Hard to tell because the sun is up 23 1/2 hours a day right now.    We were tired from the flight from Berlin but we were hungry also.  We headed to 101 Reykjavik Street Food.  What an amazing welcome to Iceland.  Little small restaurant specializing in Fish & Chips and soups.  We walked in and were greated by Cora.  A feisty and fun Filapina.   She asked us how many?  We said two.  She walked over to the stairs and yelled up the stairs...  "Hey Freddie!  You got a table for two?"  Visions of Auntie Helen flooded my brain.  Two minutes later, she was back at the stairs...  "Hey Freddie!  You got a table for two?"  I lost it and started cracking up.  Sonja was trying to hold it in, but she busted out with a big chuckle as w...
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Cesky Krumlov... Right Out Of a Fairy Tale

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 I am not sure I have the words to describe this small town in the Czech Republic close to the Austrian border.  We drove from Prague and made time to go through some small towns along the way.  We made sure to get lost at least once and to piss off Czech drivers at least a dozen times. Sonja got a chance to try "hot dog" soup. Everything I had read and watched about Cesky Krumlov could not show the raw feelings of awe that waved over us as we came into this town.  The festival going on, The Five Petal Rose Festival, is an annual event to honor the king that founded this town back in the 1400's.  Folks are in costume, there are shows with music, puppet shows and food.  Oh my gosh, the food!  We have eaten things here that we've never tried before and there was nothing we did not like. The pictures below are various shots around the town and the castle.  One interesting note about the castle... there's a moat around it that is dry and for all these...
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