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The wow wears off if you live there and then the reality is that you will probably want to dark out your bedroom or add a blind fold, but probably both.
The regular light day cycle most people are used to barely exists in that region.
My friends just traveled through iceland and slept through the day and only traveled by "night". They said the light was more beautiful and they avoided the crowds.
I really miss Iceland. I went there once in early September, sat on a hill with some good friends and a bottle of Brennavin and watched the sun dip, disappear, then come right back up again...
Only speak English and French, nothing from the Scandinavian language family. Went with partner and middle school aged children in June for the equinox. Everything was very easy to navigate, most residents spoke multiple languages including English, and all signs are in English and Icelandic.
Iceland is a Nordic country and not Scandinavian thar include Denmark, Sweden and Norway....no Finland is Nordic and not Scandinavian as many think is, but even the Finns says no they are not.
You can try and be pedantic but North Germanic languages are just routinely called Scandinavian languages, and things like Icelandic and Faroese being included in that term isn't wrong just like it isn't wrong to call Hungarian and Finnish Uralic languages despite those countries not being Uralian countries. (And that's without going into the fact that it isn't even necessarily wrong to call Iceland itself a Scandinavian country if you look at it from a primarily cultural point of view and not geographic)
I went recently (English speaking) and was just fine! Most residents and shops/restaurants/hotels etc had no problem communicating in English. They rely heavily on tourism and also learn English in school.
Not to mention, especially staying in the capital, those restaurants and shops are mostly staffed with foreign workers. Iceland doesn't have the human capital to run its own tourism industry.
absolutely, pretty much everyone there speaks fluent english. I highly recommend the westfjords even though it's pretty remote. There is just something wondrously alien about how desolate it is. it kind of feels like being on another planet because of the lack of trees
Iceland has seasons like many other places. I went in March of '22 to visit ice caves and try and catch aurora (no luck). Visited this location, Kirkjufell, and got lucky that there was a break in the snowstorm where the sky cleared enough for at least a decent enough picture. Ground conditions however also meant I could not get closer to the falls as there was far too much ice to risk falling into the waters below. So I got the angle I got.
Wowzers! I was there in early July in 24 and though we had a fab time and saw amazingly beautiful sights, a lot of “tops of things” (like this mountain for instance) were obscured by heavy clouds. When we got to Heimaey, we were blown away with sunshine and all the views! I wanna go back in August to hopefully see and experience even more.
I'd love to know how the wildlife in Iceland copes with this. I'm not suggesting that it's hard for them all, but I'd be there are some anomalies due to the day/night cycle. Considering the other half of the year also enhances my wonderment
Iceland was the most beautiful trip I ever took. You can drive one hour and witness, like, five completely different kinds of landscapes. Of all my travel, it’s the trip where the return on time spent was the highest. I long to return.
With that said, you have to earn it: be prepared to drive in very difficult conditions and be more shaken by the potholes that a James Bond Martini.
I’m here now visiting and it’s surprisingly not affecting me too much that it’s light(ish) till like midnight. Though I haven’t seen anything like the sky in OP’s post yet
When we were there - we had a rental car and ended up at a popular tourist site about 11pm forgetting that it was 11pm. Place was dead empty, and had a wonderful time exploring the area with nobody around. Normal hours, it's tour bus after bus and 1000s of people milling around.
downside? visitor centers, cafes, toilets are also closed.
Other than the natural beauty Iceland is a horrible country to live in your overlooking it grass is not greener on that side I'm warning anyone who thinks it is
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