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Bessastaðir, Iceland

A quick dispatch – We got into Reykjavík yesterday morning and right away were taken for a short spin by my friend Guðmundur Eyjólfsson. This is Bessastaðir, the official residence of the President of Iceland on the Álftanes peninsula just outside Reykjavík. In the foreground is the church “constructed from locally quarried lava stone and…

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