Iceland is COLD and TREELESS

Iceland is COLD! Very secure and safe, peaceful, tidy, clean and, at least today, very sunny. But cold. For Icelanders it is warm today. Some of them are outside in just t-shirts.

When we first arrived all I wanted to do is catch up on sleep and be somewhere warm. Refreshed we found the landscape rather extraordinary. No trees. Valleys with sheep and horses. Vast lonely expanses with spongy mosses. More to come with geysers and waterfalls.

Some interesting facts about Iceland are: the highest literacy rate and possibly the highest longevity rate in the world. Probably the lowest crime rate. Only 350,000 people. Very few insects. No predatory animals. Pretty safe place, don't you think?
 

 It's spongy; parts of Iceland are just expanses of moss.