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I have seen many very fine structures in England; old churches, pubs, modern coffee houses, galleries, museums, football grounds and concert halls to name some, but I think that the backgardens along the railroads in the old suburbs are as English as anything I have seen there.

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(This is a new version of old photo)

The 12th of April 1919 is one of the darkest days in the history of Siglufjörður, but then eighteen persons lost their lives in snow avalanches in this area. Seven people died at a farm in Engidalur and two men lost their lives in Héðinsfjörður.

In Siglufjörður the Evanger plant, the first large fishmeal plant in Iceland, was swept away in a massive avalanche at the cost of nine lives. The plant was a three-storied 393 square meters wooden building on concrete foundation. The avalanche was 1.000 meters across and it destroyed all the factory buildings and piers. The only remaining structures are very small parts of the concrete foundation, that are now kind of monuments of the catastrophe.

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Leyningsfoss in Siglufjörður

Today I went out walking with Björn Helgi, my lovely 11 months old grandson. We ended up in a coffeehouse and he found it great so I have a new "coffeehouse buddy" !

The Icelandic flag in half mast outside a prawn plant in my home village after three Icelandic seamen lost their lifes when a vessel that used to fish for the plant sank 150 miles west of Norway last week.

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