...and it's
still snowing in Edinburgh. I love snow, it's great. Every time I look out the window and see it's started snowing again it makes me smile.
After demonstrating my ignorance I thought I'd try and learn a bit more about Iceland so I've been searching and reading up about the place.
3 Things I didn't know about Iceland
- They have no army, air force or navy - military spending is 0% of GDP. Peace.
- The phone book in Iceland lists people by their first name.
- It's the most sparsely populated country in Europe
When Iceland became a republic in 1944, they passed a law that described the flag like this: "
The civil national flag of Icelanders is blue as the sky with a snow-white cross, and a fiery-red cross inside the white cross." which is nice and poetic and appropriate: sky, snow and fire.
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| Sky, snow and fire |
If we'd done the same in Scotland we'd have ended up with a totally different flag than we've got: "
The national flag of Scotlanders is as grey as the sky with a muddy brown smear and a few rainy-grey splashes".
I'm kidding. I love the Scottish weather really. Actually no, I don't. I hate our climate - it's cold, damp and windy and usually I moan about not even getting a proper winter. This year though eh?
No military!! Wow, they are living John Lennon's dream out there. Time to emmigrate -I love the listings by first name too. Maybe because so many people have the same last name?
ReplyDeleteIs it true that they don't officially name their children until they are about 2 years old because they think it takes that long to decide which name fits the child's personality? Or is that Finland??