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Londoners joined a long queue for a last minute chance to purchase protective glasses to watch a solar eclipse on Wednesday (Aug 12) afternoon.

Elsewhere in Europe, people gathered in Iceland and northern Spain to witness the first total solar eclipse in 27 years.

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00:11What we are about to live here is to say, what do you do here? Why have you chosen this
00:16place in Spain?
00:21And the camping, just the camping, to the left...
00:36Well, I'm going to scope out the top floor of my block of flats and see if I can get
00:39a good view from it. Otherwise, the backup plan would be come here, or like go to Tower Bridge or
00:43something.
00:44Yeah, just going to think about where to go, just going to put this here under.
00:58We planned to come to Spain to see the eclipse because it's a place where we can see it 100%.
01:09And, above all, there is a great climate, ideal, because the rest of Europe is very cold.
01:16Here is cold, at night we have to sleep with the cover, so it's good.
01:22The atmosphere and the atmosphere are fantastic and we are all good.
01:26I feel a little bit of emotion, yes, because I know that I will not have in my life the
01:34possibility, another time, to see an eclipse or a kind of phenomenon.
01:38I see that there is a lot of people who are even excited, like me, so there is a community
01:44of emotional people around us that are really nice.
01:47Yeah, we planned it one year ago because we like to see eclipse and then we say, okay, we go
01:55to Spain, first going to Portugal and then now we are going back to Holland and then we stay here
02:01because it's a nice place here.
02:03I hope to see an absolute darkness for one minute or thirty.
02:10We will see that the birds will sing again and life will start again after the eclipse is finished.
02:27This is a once in a lifetime. I love the outdoors and so wanted to come and see the eclipse.
02:34And just experience it. I've never been to Iceland and so thought it was a great place.
02:39Although I do hear, probably in the UK where I've come from, it's actually going to, they're going to get
02:44a better view of it than us here tonight.
02:46The landscape here is incredible. So it's just being able to witness it here.
02:50We've booked a fantastic super jeep tour. So we're going to head out in a few hours to the fjords
02:56on the west side to be able to see an incredible eclipse.
02:58Hopefully a little bit worried about the sort of cloud and rain, but yeah, just looking forward to being hopefully
03:03able to see some of that.
03:04I'm feeling optimistic that the sky will clear just in time as it should.
03:09But I think it's going to be a magical day either way.
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