Inexpensive to get to from the east coast and under 6 hour flights from DC, Iceland was a great short visit. With mosts flights arriving early morning and departing late afternoon, and 24 hour daylight in the summer, no days are lost to travel. This means you can do Iceland in a long weekend, or less. The People The population of Iceland is 350,000, which is half of the population of Washington, DC, or 6% of the entire DC Metropolitan area. 60% of the residents live in the vicinity of Reykjavík. The people are extraordinarily nice. The only rude people were ones getting off planes from other countries. Everyone in any store, restaurant, hotel or otherwise, was extremely friendly. Icelanders begin learning English in 2nd grade, along with at least one other foreign language. With only three local television channels, their English is refined via Netflix (no subtitles). While Icelandic is the language they all speak with each other, most Ic...