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so you think you've got some cool arrows up there ey?

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I thought I was seeing double x 2... Picture taken in the lovely town of Hafnarfjörður, where they have more elves and hidden people than most other towns I know.

Natural Landscape from the other side

Don't jump!

This is the Mitchell River National Park in Victoria. A slightly hairy vantage point from the 'pink ribbon trail', a somewhat dubious track mostly followed by spotting random pink ribbons hangin off trees.

The rewards for a hard day's hike: blissful freshwater swimming and maybe the chance to see a rock wallaby or two.

Natural Landscape in Iceland

You could say this is a natural landscape within the city. This photo is taken from one of the busiest traffic streets in Reykjavík; Sæbraut, the mountain is called Esja.

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Bonus Supermarket in Reykjavík, the icicles initially caught my attention.

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welcome to episode 1 of what will hopefully become a regular segment on the exchange..

this is a strangely birdless Southern Cross station in Melbourne.. maybe it's cos they've got nothing to eat.

Driving with Tom Waits

The Local Market - Williamstown Australia

I've finally found meself a market! Held on the 3rd Sunday of each month about 15 minutes out of Melbourne, the Williamstown Craft Market features all handmade goods, some cheap plants, weird wooden stuff, snags cookin on the barbie and some beautiful trees to have a snooze under.. everything good in an Aussie market.

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The Local Market - Kolaportið in Iceland

Kolaportið is Reykjavík´s version of the local market. It has survived for quite a number of years. The reason; it´s indoors! Rain or snow its open every weekend. One of the few places in Iceland where you can walk around taking pictures unnoticed. But it´s also a nice place to talk to people. There you find people like Reynir Sverrisson who sold me the postcard in the post(card) history post. He buys and sells Icelandic postcards and stamps, he even travels abroad to acquire Icelandic stamp collections which ended abroad after the war.

Post(card) History

Photo: ©Helgi Árnason
Sigurður Guðmundsson appears to have been considering the resurrection of the Icelandic women's costume as early as his student years in Copenhagen. When he returned to Iceland for good in 1858, he soon started work on designing a new costume, which he felt was a reflection of the spirit of the costumes that Icelandic women had worn from the early days of Icelandic history.
The skautbúningur came into being in 1858-60. The oldest extant example of a skautbúningur was made in the first half of 1860 by Sigurlaug Gunnarsdóttir, wife of Ólafur Sigurðsson of Ás, Hegranes in north Iceland, who was a relative of Sigurður's. Letters from Ólafur to Sigurður are preserved, in which he requests patterns and more detailed instructions on the sewing of the new costume. These are the principal sources for the history of the design.
(source: http://www.buningurinn.is)

Post(card) History

Lamington National Park in Southern Queensland was named after Charles Cochrane-Baillie the 2nd Baron Lamington who was the Governor of Queensland from 1896 until 1901. He also gave his name to the Lamington, a ripper cake dipped in chocolate and covered in coconut, or as the Gov preferred to call them:"those bloody poofy woolly biscuits".

Welcome from Iceland

Self Portrait - Part 1 of the Exchange completed from the top of the world...
me and the rest of the bunch...

Welcome

Hello from down here on the other side.. and our first assignment for the Exchange.. a self portrait.. dancing with the bees.