Cultural Exchanges

Driving
(The Icelandic way)

The Icelandic people are geniuses at how to do things fast and well, for example if they are having a holiday the husband packs his wife and children in to the car and quickly speeds up the car. Usually the trip goes just fine because most of the drivers use the same tactic on the shoestring country roads, but sometimes it happens that tourists are on the road enjoying the nature driving at legal speed or are on a bycycle. What foolishness.

Music and fashion

Most Icelanders are dressed up to the latest fashion, new car and a new big camper at the back of the car. The family is wearing new sports clothes from Cintamani or 66° North. To secure that no one has to talk, everybody has an ipod in his ears that is filled with music from youtube.com before the trip started.

Working hard

Now the vacation is over, the camper is in storage, fashion clothes in locker and the pocket is empty so it is time to go for work again and that is what Icelanders know how to do. Working daytime, overtime and maybe nightshift, then comes the weekend works, it is so good to be a hard working man so we can have a vacation next year. Maybe in a new car.

Ólafur S.