Less crowds and cheaper rates are two reasons that make this something you should definitely consider. Transportation and tagged travel, cost, when, flight, accommodation, rates, temperature, off-season. The horses are short, sweet, gorgeous, and friendly, with the longest, thickest hair. Icelanders build very unique churches. The churches are edgy and experimental and fun, like architectural fights of fancy. They also like their sculpture. Sculptures are everywhere, weird, abstract, and usually substantial. Even the people are substantial. They build with imported wood or else concrete, and clad everything in stucco or corrugated iron. No predatory animals. Canada, where you have to always consider a variety of other beasts that could want to get into your food. Food in the tent, no problem. Public garbage cans are few and far between. English is up-to-date. Icelandic, although being able to read it would be helpful. Apparently the population lives on hot dogs and ice cream cones, which they eat in the rain, in the cold, in the night. Oh, and everyone is listed by their first name, and yes, the prime minister is in the phone book. Icelandic sweater crosses all style and age and genre boundaries. All three were wearing the exact same design of sweater and none even glanced at the others. There are hardly any gyms, ie. The fashionable men seem to aspire to be as skinny as possible, if anything.