I was having a quick look at the stats for the blog tonight (thanks to you all for looking in) and I was delighted to see the first ever, as far as I know, visitor from Iceland.It made me look for some pictures of the country to remind me of what a beautiful place it is....
Contrary to its name, which of course is not Iceland but Island (Lýðveldið Ísland), the country is not that cold or that icy. The temperatures are not really much more or less than you’d expect in parts of Scotland and the landscapes are breathtaking. The towns are small, and beautifully clean. The buildings are bright and colourful in a northern way, perhaps to brighten the dark of northern winters.
The people are hard-working, well educated, speak several la
nguages and love it when a stranger speaks Icelandic, however little, with a foreign accent. There are fewer than 400,000 of a population and yet they have built a modern and until recently prosperous society. One day soon it will be prosperous again.... long long before Britain Mr Murphy.Of course, according to Gordon Brown they are terrorists, but then who cares what that has been thinks.
I thought you might enjoy some pictures of this beautiful country.
