I like to believe any village/city founded at the foot of a mountain was erected in the spirit of enough people in the pioneer group looking at that huge mountain in front of them, exhaling, and saying “…screw this noise, I’m stopping here”.
Reykjavik, Iceland via Andres Thorarinsson
I don’t care what sort of devastated condition their economy is in nor do I care about their love for salty sea fish — I would like to visit Iceland.