We have breakfast every day like anybody else. But we have breakfast in bed every day! And in order to have breakfast in bed, you need to buy food. That’s what we did yesterday, buying food for breakfast. Expensive food! We like bread and cheese, Müsli with yoghurt and fruit, tea and coffee. But when you look at the labels, you can see that Iceland hardly has any agriculture. Only 1% of the land is used to grow things and that mostly in greenhouses. They do grow kale, potatoes and cabbage, etc. But the blueberries and strawberries we had for breakfast came from the Netherlands and Spain, which is 5422 km away! If we’d eat local food, Ted would have to eat fish, which he is doing occasionally, but definitely not for breakfast. Btw, fish and aluminum products are the main export articles from Iceland. No surprise…..

When I woke up last night it was 3.30am. I went to the kitchen (the bedroom doesn’t have any windows) and was blended by the light outside. It was bright daylight! Brighter than most days in Monterey or any place along the Californian coast with all the fog and overcast!

But enough for now, we want to go explore the city and get to hear more of this interesting language, which is a Germanic language and developed from a few Norwegian dialects. It sounds like it has a lot of umlauts, ö,ü,ä and such. It also sounds as if people only use the front of their mouth, nothing coming out of the throat like some middle eastern languages. A friend of mine, a professor for phonetics, told me once that the mouth and tongue have ~ 60 different muscles and each language uses a different group of those. No language uses all of them. So that’s where my theory comes from: the islands people use only the front muscles to speak because if they’d open their mouth too wide when speaking they would have a sore throat all the time because it’s too cold. Or what do you think?