Icelanders in China

Joa's lovely sister Hildigunnur and her just as lovely best friend Birna are taking time away from Iceland between high school and college to travel around the world.

They spent some time in China including time in Shanxi with spectacular Sophia. They had a few days in New York too and I just had to see them and hear their China stories so I zoomed up to pick them up from the airport and take them for breakfast and deposit them in Brooklyn where they were to stay with friends/family.

We ended up in a quaint little cafe in Brooklyn called the Flying Saucer where we were served by the sweetest androgynous person. We sat ourselves down on leather sofas that looked like they had been purchased at the Salvation Army with our coffee and babka and bagels and had a nice chat about their travels. After New York they are on their way to the Dominican Republic and then a month or two in various countries in Latin America.

What sweet, gentle, strong and independent young women they are.

More Flickr pictures of their trip to Shanxi and other parts of the world are available here. And just in case Icelandic is one of your languages, they are keeping a blog of their travels too--Heimsreisa ójá!!