I'm back! Well, first I'll answer your questions.
Iceland is green in the summer, I was there in the winter, and it was covered in snow and ice.
We didn't go to a pool in Sweden (and the women did not wear 12 layers, but usually 2, which is still too much
). We did however go to the Blue Lagoon in Iceland; the poster ads that are all over the cities clearly advertised topless chics, yet as I learned that was false advertising, as all the females there were topful.
So, first Iceland. I was in Reykjavik for 2 days. There's only about a quarter million people on the entire island, so it's pretty desolate. We rented a Toyota Avensis (which had its problems, broken wipers, broken lights, broken switches, boot wouldn't close too well, and front passenger door would randomly open sometimes, but the car served its purpose) and drove all over the countryside. Iceland is very beautiful for nature, miles and miles of road (covered in snow and ice...) and you'll see another car about once every 5 - 10 minutes. The city of Reykjavik is pretty small, it looks like an Eastern European city, it was covered in ice, and people were slidin' everywhere, even this old lady did a drift turn around a light, that was awesome. People there KNOW how to drive in the snow! We also saw this huge Mercedes truck do a sliding turn on the highway at atleast 120km/h! Note that we couldn't even get above 70km/h safely. My dad was driving, we had several very near accidents. The Blue Lagoon was awesome, differently an experience. We saw the northern lights, it was green and yellow, pretty cool. The prices there are RIDICULOUS! Gas is $5/gallon, and food is VERY expensive. We looked and looked, and ended up at a Pizza Hut and had a single large plain cheese pizza, for $50 USD!!! (3.300 ISK). My opinion of Iceland, a very nice place to visit (I'd recommend the summer, the sun is actually up, when we were there, it was up for only 4 hours a day, the weather isn't that bad, -10 to -5*C [15-25*F] but VERY windy), but it would not be a place that I would want to move to, not that much to see, very isolated, and not many people.
Then off to Sweden. This place is KICKASS! I thought we feel like outcasts, because we'd be the only non-blond people there, well, not the case. I'd say about 90% of blond people in Stockholm are female (oh, I could go on and on about how insanely hot the Swedish chics are, but that'll be later
), and the majority of people there are not blond, but black and brown hair, so people didn't think we were tourists. The people are very nice too, we met some college students at a McDonalds, they were too hilarious! Stockholm looks like a Eastern European city, with the small roads and old city and such. Stuff there isn't as expensive as Iceland, but still was expensive (the USD is worthless in Scandanavia...). I don't have much time to say all the stuff, so I'll make it quick. The city is very cultural, the weather is nice, hardly ever snows in Stockholm (though always cloudy during this time of year), it was just a really nice place. I learned a lot of Swedish while there by watching subtitled TV, I can even make simple sentences. The cars there are mostly Volvos and Saabs, with many VWs, Mercedes, Audis, Opels, all German ones and French ones, and very few American. There's a few Japanese ones around, not many. So, my opinion of Sweden is, definitely a nice place to visit for culture, shopping, and just fun, and it seems like a very nice place to live. Hell, I saw more Israeli/Middle Eastern restaurants there than Scandanavian! I'd feel like home there. Most definitely a place I would consider living.
I've always known that when I move to a city or somewhere after college or sometime, that it must be a very cultural place, I am planning to move to Europe, but I've always pictured myself living near water, like how I live in Boston now, and Stockholm would satisfy that, I just can't imagine living in the interior...it seems strange, like there's nothing around you...but whatever, Sverige ar bra!
Reykjavík, Island og/och Stockholm, Sverige
by Warren » Nov 13, 2003 @ 10:43pm 
Seriously, I'm gonna try it if I can.
