Brezk-íslenzk viðskipti - 01.12.1946, Side 19

(Above) The Houses
of Parliament, home
of Britain’s political
arena, as seen from
WestminsterBridge.
(Right) Buckingham
Palace, London home
of the Royal Family,
photographed from
the picturesque en-
virons of St. James’s
Park.
After war-time barriers the tourist trade returns. For the first of this pictorial
series we choose London, of which Doctor Samuel Johnson said: “ When a man
is tired ofLondon he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
It was Johnson who said he could repeat a complete chapter of “ The Natural
History of lceland ” from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which ran:
“ There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island."
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