Sometimes I just gotta ask myself - "what is up with Iceland?"

[HEyHEY]

All tucked away down there......

Anyone ever been?

[ISUGRADIA]

1. Not yet but will next year

It's hella cheap to travel there round trip from the Twin Cities, $418 and that included two nights in a hotel.

[Swede]

2. You gotta love a country full of blondes.

nt

[kixot]

7. She doesn't look blond to me.

[LoZoccolo]

10. Welcome to Bangkok. SMACK!

http://www.clappingfetus.com/Videos/Fights%20-%20Girl%20Attacks%20Reporter.mpg

[Susang]

11. What you don't see in that clip

Is that the reporter was trying to take pictures of her son Sindri. This happening at the same Bjork was being stalked by a man who mailed bombs to her home and eventually killed himself on video. Oh, that reporter had been stalking her for four days. Bjork wasn't charged with any wrongdoing and the reporter chose not to sue her.

http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/05/01/bjork/index1.html

[kixot]

17. Talk about a pride-obliterating bitch slap.

God-damn!

[Zen Democrat]

3. My son was there for six months, including on 9/11 ...

And, by the way, it's way UP there, not down there.

At the right time of the year, the Northern Lights are mind-blowing from what I heard.

There are only about 5 or 6 last names in Iceland. And the country is 100% Lutheran.

[HEyHEY]

4. "And, by the way, it's way UP there, not down there." - I was joking

[Cha]

5. I'd love to go someday..I hear they

have wonderful hot springs!

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. I have a couple friends from Iceland

One of them is, kid you not, named Thor.

He visited when I lived in Hawaii, and one day I had one of those gigantic hawaiian B52 cockroaches in my bathtub. I hated the damned things - well, let's be honest. Not hated. "Scared shitless of". I have no shame to admit that. So I said, "Thor, could you kill that cockroach, please?"

I loved being able to say that.

[Dem_Loyalist]

8. I have been to Iceland

Back in 1980 on a flight back from Europe. It was october and the temps were below zero. The aurora borealis was from horizon to horizon. We just had to wait in the terminal for an hour while they serviced the plane but I stayed outside as much as I could to see the sky, even freezing my @ss off. It was beautiful.

[chaska]

9. Ex-girlfriend went there before we met...

Loved it. Did not want to return to the US. The pictures she took were stunning.

[Jean Louise Finch]

12. Last August...

I spent ten days in Iceland with my boy, after wanting to head that way for about a decade. It was absolutely magnificent, I can't recommend it enough. We drove up and down the east coast for a few days (cliffs and waterfalls and icelandic horses and REALLY good food), but spent most of it doing this absolutely unbelievable, and quite well known, seven day trek. We essentially walked from the center of the country down to the southern coast.

As hikes go, I think it's the best one I can imagine. Every two hours it was some dramatic new scenery that I had no idea even existed here on earth: volcanic ash making volcanic mountains multi-colored, steam rising from vents, the ground so hot it is thumping, an endless black sand and pumice desert, green green valleys, crystal clear lakes, rocky steep inclines, waterfalls (oh waterfalls!), glaciers hanging about on top of two peaks with a small pathway between them, hilarious little scraggly "trees" making up the "forest", that's littered with fat sweet mushrooms...up and down and up and down and up and down. It's really outrageous that that country even exists, it's like another planet. It was absolutely the best trek I've ever ever even begun to imagine.

I can't even recommend it highly enough...even though you have to do a few rather uncomfortable fords of glacial rivers: yikes. And you have to time it right...we had six days of glorious warm sunshine and one day (the one requiring a hike uphill between those glaciers) of pouring rain and whipping wind, and i suppose if the whole hike had been like that, we may well have been less inclined towards delight.

Anyway, Iceland rocks. Stopping here.

No wait, someone mentioned Bjork. Genius! But there's also Sigur Ros, which will get you in the belly and not let you go.

[woofless]

14. You make it sound fantastic.

Thanks for the post Scout. Welcome to DU

[LaPera]

13. Beautiful women! environmentally aware-they say fuck the American military

industrial wars and invasions...if there was oil there???

Under this administration, we'd be there trying to steal ANY resource.

[maveric]

15. My friend was stationed there in the USAF and he loved it how the women

there shaved their genitals.
Sorry but thats all I have thats "up" with Iceland.

[LiberalVoice]

16. It's ok...I liked your post

As tasteless as it was :P