We spent a wonderful few days in Reykjavik last week; the name means smoky bay, which is rather lovely. The first day we were there the air was clear, and the light wonderful and the bay was like a great mirror. We did on a couple of other days, see mist upon the water and then it did indeed look like smoke around the bay. Apparently, the first settlers here named it because of the steam rising off the hillsides from the thermal springs.
Our hotel was a little out of the city so we walked in each day, and what a pleasant walk it was – how lucky we were though, that the weather was unseasonably mild, no wind and no rain and not the slightest speck of snow.
Reykjavik is a wonderful city, so attractive and interesting. We spent quite a while in the old town on our own, wandering around, visiting museums, looking at the old docks, taking coffee … but part of our tour took us round other areas, showing us the different types of housing, and giving us some social history of the place and its development. I completely
fell in love, and I can’t wait to go back again, but it maybe some time yet… I shall have to start saving!
Lois Elsden 
I’m so envious .I love Iceland
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I want to go back… I want to go back… I want to go back…
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I’m guessing you went to Iceland to do research for a new book. They take geneology serious there to prevent inbreeding because they are such a remote country. In Canada we have Mennonites that have the same problem. My wife and I were in a small town in southern Ontario years ago and the big buzz there was that a trainload of young Mennonite men was arriving from Mexico to wed some local girls of the same sect. Too bad we had to leave as it would have been quite a scene to witness at the station. It reminded me of a movie years ago called seven brides for seven brothers.
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It really can be a problem for small communities… when i worked at a school in Oldham there were some overseas students whose families all came from the same small village and many of them had serious eye problems, some totally blind!
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