The Icelandic Road Trip Experience — Culture, Stories, and Driving Tips
00:00:00.000 | The culture is really interesting.
00:00:01.180 | So we heard so many stories.
00:00:02.440 | One of the things about Iceland is that
00:00:04.660 | you're gonna spend some time driving.
00:00:06.080 | And I think a mistake you could make on a trip
00:00:08.640 | is to base yourself solely in Reykjavik
00:00:11.720 | because then you're not only gonna have to drive everywhere,
00:00:14.680 | we had to drive everywhere,
00:00:15.920 | but you're gonna have to drive everywhere every day.
00:00:18.240 | And so really getting out
00:00:20.260 | and staying in different parts of the country,
00:00:21.980 | I think gives you a lot more access.
00:00:24.120 | It means you don't have to drive three and a half hours
00:00:26.760 | to start your day every day.
00:00:28.760 | But on those drives, there were so many amazing stories.
00:00:32.400 | I don't even know how I could recap them,
00:00:34.520 | but it was funny how a recurring theme
00:00:36.640 | seemed to be that in almost every Icelandic story,
00:00:39.440 | everyone dies.
00:00:40.280 | We thought this was really just like from the sagas,
00:00:42.680 | the Vikings and all these old stories,
00:00:45.000 | but even with like children's stories,
00:00:47.840 | death is not something that it seems like
00:00:49.880 | in Icelandic culture.
00:00:51.320 | Maybe it's scary, but it's not not talked about.