Today is “Bolludagur” or Bun Day in Iceland. We missed it on our Iceland trip, but I have it from a reliable source (Bjork Ivarsdattor, the 16 year old daughter of our Iceland home exchangers) that the tradition is that kids wake earlier than their parents and “spank” them awake–earning a chocolate éclair-like bun for every landed swat.  “Oh, I don’t know how to explain it!” Bjork says. “But it is really fun. You get to smack someone in the butt and then he or she has to give you a Bollu–it’s a bread with cream and chocolate in the middle.”

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