Torshavn

Playing catch-up with my photos from our tour of Torshavn, capital  of the Faroe Islands, two days ago.

I wonder if my theme will be obvious.

Traditional Embroidery at the Museum

Rescue boat at the ready

The Harbour

Lighthouse at the Fort

Boats in the Harbour

Intrepid explorer

Cafe in town

Cityscape

Bus shelter

Modern buildings among the old

The beautiful Seven Seas Mariner in the port

An Architectural Tour

We had a huge day in Reykjavik today. The sun was shining as we travelled on the hopon-hopoff bus, wandered the streets and visited a couple of unique attractions.

 
While travelling around we snapped some of the typical Icelandic heritage buildings that are used for commerce and housing.

We'll look forward to boarding the ship for some R&R tomorrow.

A Semester of Reading 2023

I signed up for a few reading challenges at Goodreads but have ditched a couple of the Australian Challenges I joined there as they didn't suit my style. 

I am pleased to report that I have just managed to keep up with my goal for the general Goodreads 2023 Reading Challenge. As we have a lot of travel coming up in the second semester of 2023 I will find it difficult to maintain my commitment to reading.

When I peruse the following list I see that I've had a bias towards books featuring female protagonists, I've read many titles loosely related to genealogy and added a good measure of crime/murder/mystery to my reading conquests. Every so often my past interest as a children's and school librarian comes to the fore and I read a children's picture book, I love this genre.

2023 READING
CHALLENGE

Participants	6,515,599
Books Pledged	279,479,117
Avg. Books Pledged	42
Time Left	182 days, 6 hours

You have read 66 of 120 books in 2023.

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