What do volcanoes dream of? (Let’s face it, they sure do dream.)
Snæfell
Why, heading a football for the national team, of course.
Þingvellir
Sometimes you have to wait for the team to come, though. Sidelined on a bench. That’s the danger of being an ogre. Well, you take it in stride, right?
Dyrhólaey
It’s hard for a land to evolve into human society, but it’s inspiring that it’s giving it a good Icelandic try!
The smiths of Old Norway could never have pulled it off so well.
And drinking glasses, too. Skold!
Well, you can’t beat rain, snow, ice and muck, but you can be cleverer.
Note that in Reykjavik, if you park your car just right, at least one passenger (your sweetie, maybe?) can get in and out with dry feet. Now, that’s true love.
Iceland has one of the highest divides between wealthy and poverty people in the world. One result is that private construction is improvised and not meant to last.
Frakkastigur, Reykjavik
While government construction is sturdy and maintained.
The Church at Borg
This is not new. Private, circa 1945:
Private, 2016:
Government:
Looking out from the Harpa Concert Hall over the New Harbour in Reykjavik
Well, OK, government-financed completion of failed rich man’s extravagance. That’s part of the picture, too.
At first, dawn is pure light.
þingvellavatn
Then it reveals another world.
Then it turns blue. The other world is still there, but white now.
Then there are colours, and mountains, as the two worlds join.
When you count the houses built at þingvellir each time Iceland enacts a new constitution, that’s three worlds. Well, four if you count the ice.
But they’re sweet.
And pretty.
Who needs trees?
Anyone can see that.
Jokulsarlón
Sólheimajökull
But they’re also very friendly beasts. You just have to wait for them to come to you.
A kind of troll, really. Or, a whole family of them.
Snæfell
Big and sneaky.
Langjökull
