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A Friendly Recluse

Icelandic friendliness is in plain sight, and it must be the noun of this article title that is responsible for it, first and foremost.

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Up In Smoke

Such was the power of its explosion that it threw the two continents into a time machine and left them as endlessly remote from each other as they had been more than a millennium ago...

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A Streaming Service

While the above examples and interesting and informative, there is nothing unusual about them - unlike about the countries whose names aren't just slightly misleading but the direct opposites of what the countries actually are!

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Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future

As time went by, advancing modernity, combined with inherent variety, kept adding to Gibraltar's quaintness.

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Pillars of Strength

Heracles decided to commemorate his success - so, he broke the mountain that connected Africa and Europe, thus creating two huge pillars seen from far and wide. The Rock of Gibraltar is one of those pillars

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Hard Rock

Ever since, “Tariq's Mountain” has been anything but regular - and never failing to challenge or surprise in most aspects of one's daily life.

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A Desert Mirage

There is a wonder that is the easiest to overlook - Dubai itself, or maybe I should call it “the spirit of Dubai”.

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Fear As An Artform

What happened next was a societal equivalent of what is known in mathematics as “the Paradox of the Turtle” - every development (or piece of reasoning) is perfectly natural and logical but the outcome/conclusion is completely absurd.

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All-Inclusive

Bled's (and, arguably, the whole country's) truly unique focal point - a real jewel in its crown - is a glacial lake of the same name.