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No, not this trip. It’s crazy windy and the terrain is either flat and demoralizing along volcanic ash wastelands or semi vertical on twisty 90kmh roads with no shoulders and no guard rails.
We saw a few cyclists loaded down with camping gear struggling into the wind, and for a couple of days getting pelted by the rain and cold and decided I made the right call.
Instead I put on about 5kg 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Going to Reykjavík? Any chance your trip has to do with Eve Online? 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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DO use the hair conditioner at the Blue Lagoon.
We took the express drive around the island - big error, just stick to the south that will fill your week. The north is great but it is a bloody big island.
Do take the boat to the glacier on lake Jökulsárlón, we were lucky enough to see the entire front of the glacier calve, terrifying when you are in a little boat 100 metres from the front.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Enjoy the well-earned vacation, Chris. And you don't happen to return from your adventure in the hinterlands, thank you for all you've done for us. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Is a B&B with no WiFi room and bored?
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Is a B&B with no WiFi room and bored?
Hah! But in reality, it's "room and reclaim life!"
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100% agree! The wife and I went on 6 day cruise last year. No cellular service and no wifi for almost a week! I hadn't been that relaxed since Y2K! It would've been perfect $except that my know it all brother-in-law and his wife were also on the voyage. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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A lodge part of that remark is inn question. I'll have to sleep on it.
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Don't go alone. Wink wink nudge nudge.
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Wow! That brought back memories of seaside holidays in a B&B (maybe Brighton - don't recall) when I were a nipper.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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We couldn't afford B&B when I were a kid - we stayed in a static caravan on Hayling Island.
We kids enjoyed it, but probably not our parents: 4 kids and two adults in a plastic box the size of my kitchen ... 
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We went to yellowstone years ago and stayed the the old faithful inn.
No TV. No Internet.
No way, no more.
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Indeed - stayed in a hotel in Sedona a few years back which had nothing but moonlight and coyotes (or mountain lions - really not sure). Oh, and a sign on the door to call reception for someone to come and escort you to the main hotel at night! We checked out after one night! 
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: nipper
Although this is the lounge and you should have kept it KSS, it's a general truism that most guy start out as 'nippers', stop for a while and then, upon reaching puberty, become even more interested in nippers.
(What was that? It's not what it means?)
(I'll post it anyway.)
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I think my rabbi will want a word with you.
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Actually, I'd like to offer him a chance to really "make it big" (obviously figuratively).
Let's "cut" to the chase:
Train to do some freelance work with a pinking sheers. The kids are rather popular when they grow up. Big seller!
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I have no idea what you mean - a nipper, in British venacular is a small child "nipping" at the heels of adults, nothing more.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
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There are other meanings to nips, nipping, &etc., which I'd wager are used orders of magnitude more often than that 'British vernacular'.
"Poking" some fun at your remark with this shameless pun.
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No problem. 
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Uhhhh, bring someone along!
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APOD: 2018 July 12 - Centaurus A[^]
Images of far distant galaxies are amongst my favorites. I wonder if humans will ever reach any of them?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Space, the final frontier...
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Images of far distant galaxies are amongst my favorites. I wonder if humans will ever reach any of them?
Considering the time it took for one man-made craft to leave the heliosphere (let alone the solar system), I'd say it's highly unlikely we're ever going to leave our galaxy. So forget about the far-distant ones.
While Voyager 1 is commonly spoken of as having left the Solar System simultaneously with having left the heliosphere, the two are not the same. The Solar System is usually defined as the vastly larger region of space populated by bodies that orbit the Sun. The craft is presently less than one seventh the distance to the aphelion of Sedna, and it has not yet entered the Oort cloud, the source region of long-period comets, regarded by astronomers as the outermost zone of the Solar System.
(From Wikipedia)
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