The people of Iceland speak Icelandic, a strange and lilting language that produces words like “snorrabraut”, “nooduitgang” and “bifreidastodur”. If you get lost, don’t expect to be able to pronounce the street name. Meanwhile, Icelanders can read ancient Viking texts.
After a long flight, everything seems more bleak. Driving across rocky, empty fields under a grey sky, you feel like this might just be the most alien place you’ll ever visit. But you’re on a bus, and there’s sun peeking out behind those clouds, and the people on the highway …
I’m sitting at work right now, kinda groggy, and a little bit dizzy, owning, no doubt, to the ongoing bout with a cold that I got sometime last week or the week before. I don’t really understand colds. I thought a cold was just like a flu that didn’t take …