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\"Miguelitos<\/a><\/p>\n

Enjoying With Eliza<\/htitle>
\nFeaturing Eliza Reid<\/hfeat>
\nFounding Director, Iceland Writers Retreat
\nOctober 18, 2014
\nThe Enjoy Centre<\/a>
\nSt. Albert, Alberta, Canada<\/hbod><\/p>\n

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<\/div>\nEliza<\/a> Reid is co-founder of the Iceland Writers Retreat<\/a>, an annual series of writing workshops and cultural tours in Iceland, the land of the sagas. A native of Ottawa, she has run her own business in Iceland for over a decade. Her projects mostly involve writing and editing (usually about travel and food), but have also included organizing a conference for WWII vets and selling textbooks to schools.<\/p>\n

To keep her on her toes, Eliza has one adult step-daughter, Rut, and four children: Duncan (7), Donald (5), Saethor (3) and Edda Margr\u00e9t (1). (A toast to a future with many sons made by some Tajik hosts in Samarkand, Uzbekistan years ago seems to have been remarkably effective.)<\/p>\n

She has made Reykjavik, Iceland<\/a> her home since 2003. Her husband, Gudni J\u00f3hannesson, is an Icelandic historian. They met in graduate school in England. Their names were drawn together on a blind date as part of a fundraiser \u2014 and the rest is history!<\/p>\n

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Eliza has lived in Iceland for 11 years. My last name (Reid) means “angry” in Icelandic (rei\u00f0).<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n
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She likes to travel to “off-the-beaten” track places, including Timbuktu, Tashkent, Ulaan Baatar, Tirana, and Minsk (but I’ve yet to step foot in Calgary, Florida, Washington DC, or anywhere south of the equator!).<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n
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She loves all kinds of food and dining culture, but despite this and growing up on a hobby farm, she don’t like eggs!<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n
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Her children were born in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013. Confession: On her first birthday, there was no present for my youngest — though she did manage a cake and candle.<\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n
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