Ingibjorg Egilsdottir
They came to a fork in the road and DIDN’T take the Too Big To Fail Route.
And THEY shall have the last laugh.
It’s still hard for me to believe we went the other way, and I shudder to contemplate how badly we’ll end up paying for that.
They did the right thing.
Yes. Several decades ago. Locals seemed to be partial to a regular diet of mind altering beverage. Would not be a first choice for additional visits.
Ingibjorg Egilsdottir
My thoughts would get me a timeout.
I bet they’re so happy because the Muslims haven’t invaded Iceland for like seven centuries.
Their secret is: they told the Muslims in order to immigrate to Iceland, you have to be willing to eat Bjork :D
Kind of like the old story (truncated for brevity sake)
of a guy and his wife move into a small town and before long they get involved in local politics and push for sidewalks, a stop light at the ‘intersection’, paid firemen and a cop on duty 24 hours a day etc etc.
When all their ‘dreams’ come true and the bills start coming in, the couple showed up at a town hall meeting complaining about the tax raise and throw in
“I can’t understand it, when I first got here this was a nice little town and now it has turned itself into what I moved away from.”
Over 80% of Iceland's electrical needs are provided by geothermal energy.
They are pretty much crime free since they are isolated from the criminal class that dominates the United States and the muslims in Europe.
They have a very high alcohol consumption rate, but who wouldn't considering they have over 130 active volcanoes and the winter months of darkness and cold.
Since their women are pretty hot looking, who can fault winter darkness, cold and booze and hot looking women?
Sounds like a cool place to visit (no pun intended) but not a place I would like to live........
Iceland has opened its door to the Muslim invasion. They are already causing trouble.
How about their diversity?
My wife went a few years back and she loved it. She came back wanting to move there. I told her I loved trees.
I’ve never been to Iceland and doubt I’ll ever get there, but the country is not “adrift”.
I don't know why, but the "Eloy" from the movie The Time Machine just popped into my head.
I’ve been to Iceland. Spent a few days there. Went a few years ago on a tour of Denmark, the Faroes, Iceland, Scotland, etc. Northern Atlantic tour is what it was. Also saw Ireland (Cork), northern France (Le Havre, Bayeux, and Normandy) and southern England (Portsmouth, London, Harwich, Cornwall). Missed Stonehenge and Highclere Castle from Downton Abbey. We sailed home to the USA from Reykjavik to Boston on a cruise ship.
Went on the Golden Circle Tour in Iceland and saw the original Geysir that all geysers are named after (it only blows up once or twice a year), the little geyser next to it that erupts every ten or so minutes, the enormous waterfall from the opening of the Prometheus movie by Ridley Scott, the Althing location, the above ground break between the American and European continental plates, and the big glacier they have. Also went to the capital of Reykjavik and had Viking food for lunch, saw their museum, House of Parliament, and had Italian food for dinner. Kind of hard not to see most of Iceland in a day, but I’m sure some will disagree.
Everyone who’d never seen anything like Iceland oohed and ahhed at each stop, but I thought Iceland looked just like Northern Nevada only with moss, lichen, constant sunshiny rain showers, and soggy fen bogs. Iceland also looks kind of like the dry side of the big island of Hawaii if you’ve ever been to Hawaii in the off-season when it’s constantly raining. The Faroes were more striking in appearance by far. I’ve been through the Arctic Circle before. Also been all over Western and Central Europe over the years, and the North Atlantic didn’t really stand out by comparison.
All I really remember of the Icelandic people was that they wore a lot of quality rain gear and pretty much only ate fish and vegetables that will grow in a soggy climate with little sunshine. Like leeks and cabbage and stuff. If you don’t like yogurt and raw herring or cooked cod for breakfast and lamb stew for lunch, you’re going to have a hard time. Exotic food to Icelanders is the New York style hot dog, believe it or not. They have sort of a fascination with hot dogs. Eating a jalapeño pepper would probably send a typical Icelander to the hospital. They all seem like healthy people but they have a huge cigarette smoking habit. They also have an appalling auto fatality figure because they drive like pre-adolescent children who’ve been given a car and no driving instructions. Their knitted sweater achievements are the world’s finest, I’ll say that. Bought one. I can’t remember how many kronor it cost but it wasn’t a lot. They have a lot of sheep in Iceland. You’ll smell them immediately and that goes triple for the Faroe Islands.
Coolest thing about Iceland is that they’re pretty far from everyone else on the planet. If they lost communication with the outside world somehow, they could go the rest of their days not knowing or caring and just being Icelandic. It kinda surprised me that the other Scandanavians countries don’t really regard Iceland as fully Scandanavian. I sure couldn’t tell the difference.
I didn’t think Iceland was some magical experience by any means but I’m not a rock climber or kayaker. Ireland makes Iceland look like a nickel. I much prefer European destinations like Paris, London, or Amsterdam.
My daughter has been in England the last nine months. She’s stopping for two days in Iceland on her was back the the colonies next month.