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It's just after 8:30pm, and the sun is still a good deal above the horizon. Can I really call it sunset? I'm not sure, but with the midnight sun in Iceland, it never really truly gets dark. It's kind of a weird phenomena.
On the upside, your touring day can be as short or as long as you want since you always have a good deal of light available. Things do close, but nature is still open for business. It can be a bit eerie at times if you're out at say 12am, taking photos when no one else is around an otherwise busy location. Then again, you're out at 12am because you want to take photos when no one else is around an otherwise busy location!
There's not a whole lot to see and do in Akranes, besides this lighthouse. For me, it was a place with a few more dining options than some others villages in the region, and made for a nice stopping point for me that day. A visit to the Akranes Lighthouse was my post-dinner stroll.
If you're off to explore more of West Iceland, there's an undersea tunnel connecting Reykjavik and Akranes that shaves off a good 40 mins or so of driving. I generally found it to be quite pleasant to drive anywhere in Iceland, except for when I got closer to Reykjavik. Then there were more traffic circles to deal with, which posed a challenge for me as a new stick-shift driver not yet confident in my manual driving prowess.
Overall, the lighthouse is one of those 10-15 min stops. It's unlikely to be a place you're going to spend an hour or so exploring - for which, Iceland is filled with those. If I was short on time, I'd definitely choose a waterfall or volcano or any number of crazy amazing natural sights that are so common in Iceland over a lighthouse. If, like me, you just need somewhere peaceful to wind down your day, a visit to the Akranes Lighthouse is a nice way to catch the "midnight" sunset.
Blogged: www.aisleseatplease.com/blog/2016/11/4/akranes-lighthouse...
I have come across a few of these lately usually associated with built structures (ie. dark corners in walls and a couple on tombstones (yikes!)), but they are very shy and scary huge. I measured this one against my hand and it would have filled it easily so wingtip to wingtip was approximately 14cm.
Pu'er, Yunnan, China
Singapore Skyline from Garden by the Bay Dominated by Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Super Tree with beautiful reflection in the lake during twilight.
The impressive 1911 built structure for the then South East & Chatham Railway is grade II listed -hence it remaining in situ long after closure.
Numbers of signal boxes in the UK peaked around ths time this was built with about 12,000 in the country.
This cabin was closed in 2011 and signalling moved into the East Kent SCC.
The gate church of Nile Stolobensky was built in 1751-1755 by the Selizhar peasant Foma Pavlov. He took the gate Tikhvin Church of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow as a model. This can be seen if we compare the two lower tiers of these temples. The upper part of the church of Nile Stolobensky was completely rebuilt in 1832-1838 in order to give it a resemblance to the new Epiphany Cathedral. Instead of the two upper tiers, a domed rotunda with a small dome was built.
Надвратную церковь Нила Столобенского построил в 1751-1755 гг. селижаровский крестьянин Фома Павлов. За образец он взял надвратную Тихвинскую церковь Донского монастыря в Москве. В этом можно убедиться, если сравнить два нижних яруса этих храмов. Верхнюю часть церкви Нила Столобенского полностью перестроили в 1832-1838 гг. для того, чтобы придать ей сходство с новым Богоявленским собором. Вместо двух верхних ярусов была сооружена купольная ротонда с небольшой главкой.
Gothic door with portal window on a weathered orange building near the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy.
Тра́пани (итал. Trapani, сиц. Tràpani) — коммуна в Италии, административный центр одноимённой провинции Сицилии.
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Louvre Paris,France
Entrance of the Louvre museum under its famous glass pyramid,Paris -Photo taken
on:June 3,2015
Hangzhou Olympic And International Expo Center view with reflective waters, lush greenery along the riverbank, the iconic stadium resembling a lotus flower, contemporary bridge structures connecting both sides, and a backdrop featuring tall skyscrapers under a clear blue sky. Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China
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The Faroese have one of the oldest parliaments in the world, located in the Tinganes section of the capital city of Torshavn. Their parliament first met during the Viking ages in 825, and is in good company with other old parliaments such as that of Þingvellir in Iceland and Jamtamót in Sweden. The buildings still standing here today are from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Walking around Tinganes in the middle of a fine Sunday I discovered two things: 1) It's pretty darn small. You could see the whole thing in 5 minutes if you wanted. And 2) Like elsewhere in the Faroes, you're not likely to encounter a lot of other tourists (yay!). If you take a visit to Torshavn, it's pretty hard to pass up walking through this small and enjoyable historic area, easily accessible from downtown Torshavn on foot.