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Snow in August!

October 1st, 2019 · No Comments · eating, Experiencing, Farms, Food, Garden, Iceland, Musings, Site Seeing, travel

We’re in Iceland.  It’s August 11th, and there’s snow!   Not a lot, but the kind that in Massachusetts, and parts of New England signals the closeness of winter. We are in Akureyri in the northwest area of Iceland, and we are having what will be the worst weather in the trip.  It is pouring rain, […]

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What does the Franklin County Fair have to do with Iceland you ask…

September 14th, 2019 · No Comments · Children, Education, Food, Iceland, Musings, Site Seeing, travel

Well,  nothing really!   However, overnight visitors, line dancing in the Fair Parade, and enjoying an amazing late summer weekend will keep me from getting my blog entries about Iceland finished!   So here’s a few pictures from a great weekend of Fair and good friends!   So now that we have cleared that up, let’s get […]

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Tigers and lions and…..Wait, nope…..Shark and Scallops and Sushi….oh my….

August 28th, 2019 · No Comments · eating, Experiencing, Food, Iceland, Itinerary, Musings, Site Seeing

What an amazing day this was in Iceland! We were off on an hour’s drive to the Snaefellsnes Penisula to the town of Stykkes-holmur (my apologies for misspelling anything – Icelandic is a very difficult language for me!) We boarded a boat called the “Viking Sushi” — give you any ideas?   For two hours, we […]

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If you’re only looking at the mountains, you’re missing the fish and agriculture!

August 26th, 2019 · 2 Comments · Children, Iceland, Itinerary, Musings, Play, Site Seeing, travel

We began our day at the Northern Light Inn in Grindavik.  We ended our day at the Hotel Borgarnes in Borgarnes.   (A note about the hotel – a good basic place, small, but clean rooms with one of the tinyest bathrooms ever; and a quite good breakfast). In between, a visit to a family owned fish […]

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Watercolors, New Hampshire, Delaware, and the Beechers

June 13th, 2017 · No Comments · Children, Country Schools, eating, Education, Food, Important People, Museums, Play, Teaching & Learning

What do these items have in common? Another great day at the Country School Association of America‘s annual conference! My pictures aren’t so great today as I choose to sit a little further to the side today.  I discovered a place in the room with a bit better light overhead and a little less air […]

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