Iceland pics

The place where Iceland began its democracy in 930 A.D. Today its 300,000 inhabitants have a low infant mortality rate, one of the most equal societies with no real poor and few rich, college education for no more than $800 a year, nationalized health care, no army, and consider their national heroes writers, poets and artists. I doubt if the original 420 families could have any idea of what they began.

Our money. For months, my roommate and I had been saving money in a can, a franc when we didn't eat out, anytime we weren't sure who owed what, the results of a bet. In total it gave us our spending moneym excluding the gifts we bought.

Iceland is a seething under the ground. A good percentage of their homes are heated from the boiling underground. Icelandicers refer to volcanoes and earthquakes as expected events. They are aiming to be carbon neutral within a couple of years and are almost there.