Tuesday, September 26, 2006

4 Days in Iceland

The trip

  • Reykjavik
  • The Blue Lagoon
  • The Golden Circle
  • Reykjavik

Remembering

The great coffee
The green green fields
The cars, so many cars in town
The cool autumn air and mountain streams and steam vents in the distance
The cleanness and the keeping it clean
The style of the people and the place
The people - young and blond and blue eyed, confident and quiet
The surname conventions with son and daughter
The history and the recent growth
The grass feed beef.....
The farming - heavily subsidized
The seafood (The salted Cod, fish and chips and Lobster)
The tough short horses
The silent organization

The history

Christian in 900
Split from Rome in 1542
Under Denmark rule
"invaded" by Britain in 1940.
independent in June, 1944

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