We had a great time. I was a little anxious about coming as I can’t even say “hello” in Icelandic. But I did not meet a single person that didn’t speak English! Your other post noted that you must learn 3 other languages in addition to Icelandic. I am amazed at your nation’s multilingual abilities.
Assuming that the volcano doesn’t turn out to be too serious now is financially a great time to go to ICeland. IcelandAir was running some promotions which got us to go.
I am checking my pictures now. Looks like we were at Skogafass on one of out tours, which took us from their to the beach at Reynisjara Halsanefshellir.
Actually this could also be a rather tourist beneficial eruption, some of our eruptions have been a great spectator attraction and quite safe to travel near to. Some of those have been rather regular. So this could be bad, but could also be a great reason to come and see the nature at work.
Global warming enthusiast might also come to witness a truly massive amounts of CO2 going into the athmosphere, the numbers probably would cause all of their dreams...i.e. mean worst nightmares to come true, at least according to their models and the underlying numbers.
We could even give them a free package of kleenex tissue to weep into and some devices for self-flaggelation, given that they promise to do it somewhere where kids won´t see, as part of the fare.
But this actually will not be dangerous for anyone wanting to visit us, although some areas will be off limits for a while. These areas are sparsely populated anyway and we have a great response and surveilance system in place.