Iceland is really an interesting and beautiful country: Iceland has a area of 102.775 squre kilometers and a population of 359.122 inhabitants (census2021).
About all Iceland is a volcanic island , the "youngest" country in the world: Iceland has about 100 volcanoes and about 30 of them are active.
The Eyjaföll Volcano entered in eruption on 20th of March 2010 and threw ashes over Iceland and about 20.000 flights have be canceled: Gudni Porval Seyri, a farmer explained that the sky became suddenly dark and ther used G. P. S to find their homes.
When we say volcanoes that means geothermal energy: in a lot of place there are hot water sources and geysers; the Icelandic people enjoy bathing in hot water basins and they begin to speak with other people about many differents themes.
Some people like Rakel Theodorsdottir, a farmer uses the hot waters of a geyser to warm her grren house and produce tomatoes and cucumber or Olafur Reynisson , an Icelandic chef who cook the food with geothermal energy (an ecologic way of cooking).
I have seen a great diversity of landscapes in this journey: the Westmann islands (mountains and cliffs), Reykjavik with its look of a village,, the excursion to Norourland Eystra (snowy mountain, hot water source), the port of Dalvik with the fishing activities, then the landscape near Vogafjos : the cattle farm of Olof Hallgrimsdottir., the countryside at Varmahlid with the horseback ridind on Icelandic horses) with Florianne Colonnier or the fjords (diving with Erlendur Bogasson).
Iceland is also a fascinating country with so many different aspects: Raphaël meets in Reykjavik Hjalti Arnasson (the strongest man in the world 1990) and Ari Gunnarsson , a bodybuilder, both explain that there is tradition a strong men in Iceland, later Raphaël enjoys with them a bath in a hot water basin.
Then we know Ragnhidur Monsel , a woman who believes in the elves, who can see them singing and dancing and also listens to the eklves when they are against the construction of a road on their space.
Iceland is a country with a very low criminality, the policement are taking care for their image publishing on Instagram selfies.
Also the Icelandic people are very in their own genealogy: when a young man and a young woman have a date, they look if they are relative or not.
Iceland is also a land of great spaces: Thordur Haldorsson is postman and drives many kiñlometers to deliver the mail. On the island of Sigur and his family are take care for the eider ducks and collection after the reproduction season the feathers of these ducks.
I enjoyed very the nice meetings of Raphaël with Gisil Gislason (the helicopter pilot) ad his family, Viktor Gayet (his guide for the travel to Dalvik and the fishing in the sea), Olof Hallgrimsdottir (with her fam and the Cowshed restaurant), Floriane Colonnier and Erlendur Bogasson in Nesgja (the diving in the fault) and I appreciate the kindess of the Icelandic men and women.