Making this mistake in Iceland may land you in hot water
Pictures are the only souvenirs you're allowed to take home with you when visiting Iceland's famous Reynisfjara beach
08 October 2017 - 00:00
A round of applause please for a pair of American tourists, who unwittingly committed a crime in January when they took home a bit of a souvenir from a beach in Iceland.
The mother and her 11-year-old daughter - identified only as Joanne and Evangelina - swiped a pebble and a pile of sand from Reynisfjara beach, near the village of Vík í Mýrdal in the south of the country. The beach is famous for its black sand and its basalt rock formations that stick out of the sea.
The Icelandic Tourist Board posted a photo on its Facebook page of said pebble and sand recently, after they had arrived back in the country by post...
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