I say revisited because my first shot of Sólfar was way back in 2013 when we were in Reykjavik for a conference. We had attended a late concert at Harpa and were walking along Sæbraut Road enjoying the grey light over the fjord. We stopped to admire Sólfar (the Sun Voyager) - as most people... Continue Reading →
Alfred Fox, Iceland 1940-42, some detective work finds Skipton Camp
Once I got back home to South Africa there were still a few puzzles about Dad's time in Iceland that were left to be solved. They have nagged at me for quite a while and it's only now I've resolved them that I have been able to put these posts together. The first one: where... Continue Reading →
Alfred Fox, Iceland 1940-42, first connections
The big problem with trying to follow Dad’s footsteps in Iceland is that I really had no idea where he had been. I had plenty of pictures of him outside Nissen huts in the snow, with his leg in plaster, on a motorbike etc but usually no clue as to where the snaps were taken. ... Continue Reading →