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S2 08 | Reykjavik's lightness of being
30 minutes Posted Dec 1, 2022 at 3:00 pm.
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Iceland's capital Reykjavik is a place where people navigate geographic isolation, long periods of light and dark, unforgiving weather… and the intermittent threat of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Put together, this perhaps has led to a portrait of Iceland being an intrepid, exotic place — a place where visitors want to live out their Game of Thrones fantasies.
But in actuality, daily life is — as many things are in the Nordics — beautifully pragmatic.