Author: Gordon Young

My daughter had been planning this day for the better part of a year. The pony bug had arrived in our household the way pony bugs tend to — quietly, then all at once — but this one came with a uniquely, gloriously specific fixation: she wanted to ride an Icelandic horse. Not just any horse. An “Icelandic” horse.

The sign at the entrance to the Roman Baths in Bath asks visitors to refrain from touching the water.

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