021Foreign Language Friday: Gunnar wanted “a friendly Indian” to be pictured with. After leaving a café in McLeodGanj, India, in search of one, he returned in about 15 seconds to say he’d found two. Neither had a clue what was going on, but agreed to pose.

His SOTM says “Are you sure you want to be going alone to India, dear?” which is what his father told him just before he left Iceland.