Iceland gets a bad rep for being freezing and icy from it’s name obviously. I don’t know that history of who in the world came up with that name, but Iceland gets about as cold ad the rest of Europe (if not warmer), and definitely warmer than the Midwest. People have Iceland mixed up with Greenland. Greenland is the icy frozen one. As a lovely Icelandic woman put it: “some drunk viking must have come up with the name Iceland and we’ve been stuck with it ever since” Hehehe

People fall in love with Iceland, the land of natural contrasts. The fire from the volcanoes, the Ice and of course the Lava. Lots of Lava jewelry in Iceland. Can’t say I have seen anything fascinating other than the idea of using lava rocks - Stay tuned to see what I end up doing with that! The whole island is made of Lava! Have you ever seen black sand? If not, go to Iceland!

Another amazing revelation - This country has no McDonald’s! I have never seen a country with no McDonald’s so I was impressed. Even India had a McDonald’s! Icelanders seem to be doing just fine without a Big Mac. No great loss I say, and they would absolutely agree.

Apparently McDonald’s was franchised in Iceland for about 10 years before the big crash. But they were one of the first ones to go because of their ridiculous demands for uniformity, which required Icelandic McDonald’s to be importing their beef from the US. Totally silly of course since beef is a big industry in Iceland. That resulted in a huge increase in costs which the Icelanders were not willing to cover. So much for McDonald’s! I hate to gloat but as a vegetarian I must say to McDonald’s - Huh!

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