Iceland, or Ísland – yep, that's where we get the word from – does exactly what it says on the label. It's one big island (plus a few little uninhabited ones off the coast), and there is plenty of freezing cold water.
I usually manage to get out and do something at least vaguely interesting or off the beaten track when I'm traveling but I have to admit that in Paris I was just doing the same tourist stuff as all the other tourists!
After Avignon we hopped back on the train and went to St Raphael in the French Riviera, which was… about what you'd expect, a lot of very expensive boats that their very expensive owners probably seldom have time to use, and too many posers hanging out on the beach and going between bars. I had other plans…
I went over to Germany for a family wedding in July, and after that I met up with a friend and we headed to France for a bit of holiday goodness. We took the crowded but pleasant trains to Avignon, speeding through farming countryside, oddly with the occasional fighter jet swooping around in the distance.
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