Moving to Iceland

Very surreal experience over here. I'm really feeling good and loving the move away from Dublin so far. In the area I'm in if you work for a company with a base in Iceland and you have a kinatalla (national insurance number) you get given a card like a swipe card. Shopping, and food eating out you swipe the card it comes out of your next taxable wage. This is lightyears ahead of anything I've ever seen in Europe.

Im never coming home.

It's like a federal thing, so even thought we've all cash and money in our accounts we just swipe if we eat out or work canteen or lads go for beers and let it deduct at end of the month. I'm working 17 hour days home sleeping for 6 7 and back in. Money is golden.

I can't complain about anything the Icelandic people are absolutely amazing speak better English then we do.

Hey Coleen thank you so much really is going well. We are very much so accepted into our community here. Nobody really speaks Icelandic to each other only really the 55 and above bracket. Shops, bars, restaurants all converse in Americanised English.

The place is a little piece of magic the town I'm based in there is only a few hundred in the entire town. I'm the closest town to the Fjords opening out to the Faroe Islands. I'm doing night and day shifts at the minute. I'm planning a year out here, accomodation and food is covered everyday I've spent 27 euro in 2 the last week. Literally nothing to spend on so if I can't buy a home with less then 50k owed on it when I'm home I've failed here hahah.

This is one Geo Thermal I won't be dipping hahaha. Thank god flow has stopped we are just waiting it to rock up now. It's safe to walk at the moment. But we got some news in the ground that Katla has started to rise and give activity this is worrying. As if Katla being one of the largest goes off the Largest Öræfajökull would inevitably go off and this is an entire glacier. 100km of an opening it would potentially finish Iceland and a lot of Europe.

To speak to locals regards there outlook on volcanos alot of them just seen it as inevitable the country will become lil more then a rock. They say what is in Yellowstone this super volcano, well what is under the icecaps and glacier in Iceland is twice the size and would potentially life changing consequences for the world. Here is the mouth of another visible from Reykjavik domestic to Egilsstadir airport last week.