Essay about the various mountain towns in Iceland

Our plane to Iceland took off at 7:30 in the evening. After more than five hours of flight, plus a five-hour time difference, we landed smoothly in the capital of Iceland at more than 6 o'clock in the morning local time. Reykjavik International Airport.

As soon as I stepped into the airport terminal, I felt that the space was so small that it was difficult to breathe. Unexpectedly, even the airport in Iceland is pitifully small. The narrow waiting room corridor is like the corridor of a residential building. It is crowded with passengers wearing winter clothes. They are either whispering to each other or talking informally. What is eye-opening is that there are as few seats in the terminal as there are rare animals. Many passengers who have no place to sit are standing, so they naturally form a long queue. In addition, the ticket collection gate for boarding is so close. Like Siamese twins, human walls criss-crossed the airport prematurely, blocking the already small airport terminal. If you look carefully at the past, there were even more extreme ones. Both the terminal and the corridor in the airport are surrounded by walls as thick as city walls with few windows, making people feel as if they are walking in a heavily guarded ancient castle. At that time, I suddenly thought: "If a movie about the Japanese Military Police Headquarters is shot at Reykjavik International Airport in Iceland, the audience will not be disappointed."

The five of us passed the customs. , got the luggage, and hurriedly walked out in fear. After all, he was unfamiliar with the place he was born in, so he was afraid that "poor mountains and bad waters would bring out unruly people"!

As soon as we entered the thick night in Iceland, we were hit by the eerie cold wind. After several cold wars, I suddenly realized how shrewd and cunning the Icelanders are. It turns out that the narrow spaces and thick walls in Icelandic airports are intentional to minimize heat loss and resist the cold winter.

Looking from the map, the distance from the airport to our hotel in the center of Reykjavík (Ice Introduction: Reykjavík) is at least fifty kilometers. I hurriedly asked the service staff at the airport front desk and learned that there are at least two ways to go to Reykjavik city, or take an expensive taxi (if shared, it costs at least 40 US dollars per person), or choose Tour buses with relatively cheap fares. For working class people like us, of course we choose the latter. Despite this, a trip to the center of the Icelandic capital cost us over thirty dollars each! well! When people go out, they are like sheep to be slaughtered. Thanks to my shabby look and skinny figure, I gave outsiders the impression of being dismissive. In other words, if you sell me, it won't be worth a few oceans.

Just when I took out my wallet and prepared to buy a ticket, Xiao Cao, who was very calculating, ran over with a smile. She pulled out a piece of paper from her pocket, waved it in front of my eyes, and said, "Fisherman King, don't worry! I have a cheaper one."

I'll just listen. His eyes lit up, and he said with confusion: "What's a cheap way?"

Xiao Cao twisted his little mouth beautifully as if he had picked up a large piece of glass jade, and said softly and slowly : "I have done research a long time ago. We can take bus No. 55, and the fare is only ten dollars per person." I didn't expect it! Heroes emerge at critical moments. Xiao Cao's clever little plan actually saved each of us more than 20 US dollars.

After listening to Xiao Cao’s words, I took a breath of air. So suspenseful! I almost got taken advantage of. For me, twenty dollars can be enough for me to enjoy a big meal at least, but it is enough for a month's living expenses at most!

The bus stopped and went in the dark night. After driving for more than forty minutes, a dazzling city of lights suddenly appeared in front of it. Needless to say, it must be Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. I pressed my face against the glass window and looked out. I saw the bright lights on the roadside, and the buildings of all sizes were brightly lit. People couldn't help but sigh, how could this small city with a population of only a few hundred thousand never come back? On the surface, it looks larger than a metropolitan city with a population of several million. Even Shanghai, one of the largest cities in China, would run away in shame upon seeing the tens of thousands of houses with lights on all night long. Later, after studying, I learned that energy is everywhere in Iceland. The electricity produced by these two major resources, hydropower and geothermal heat, is not enough for several Icelandic countries. This is really true that the blessed do not have to be busy, while the unfortunate are heartbroken. Isn’t Iceland inherently deficient in that it has long nights in winter? God has blessed Iceland with inexhaustible energy, allowing its residents to use lights instead of the sun.

After getting off the bus, we walked through the streets and alleys for another mile on the mountain road. By the time we dragged our tired bodies and arrived at the hotel where we were staying, it was already nine o'clock in the morning. .

When I learned that we had gone too early and there were still two hours left before checking into the hotel, I was in a dilemma. what to do? Are you just waiting so stupidly? Still the shrewd Xiao Cao has an idea. She took a deep breath and said nonchalantly: "We might as well leave our luggage in the hotel, and then take a quick tour of the morning market in the capital of Iceland." I listened to Xiao Cao's words. After that, I laughed heartily and thought: "How can we go to the morning market in such a hurry when we are just dozing off every step of the way?"

It is said that there is no night in Iceland in summer, and There are only seven hours of daylight in Iceland in November, from sunrise at 10am to sunset at 5pm. It was just after nine o'clock when we walked out of the hotel, and the color of fish belly actually appeared in the sky. Obviously, it must be a clear day today.

Thinking of this, I lost 20% of my sleepiness. When I looked over, my heart was shocked, and I lost half of my sleepiness unconsciously. It really makes me laugh out loud with joy. The 73-meter-high Reykjavik Cathedral is actually just a stone's throw away from our hotel. Proudly, I resisted the disturbance of fatigue and sleepiness, opened my eyes wide, and smiled at the leader with my big belly "giggle". Seeing that the time was right, Xiao Cao began to sell melons to Mrs. Wang to show his merit. She narrowed her eyes into a thin line and said smugly: "In order to let you have a good time, I deliberately found the hotel in the city center, close to the cathedral." I looked around excitedly and then raised my eyebrows in front of Xiao Cao. He raised his thumbs and praised loudly: "High! High! It's really high!" Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, is actually a mountain city, and this cathedral, which was only built in the 1960s, stands on the top of the mountain. superior. That’s the city center of the city!

Xiao Cao tossed his hair reservedly and shook his head before he could say anything. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly realized and whispered: "I am not the high commander you mentioned!"

We first visited the large and magnificent church, and then each of us spent ten dollars to buy a ticket to climb the stairs, ready to climb to the top of the church to have a panoramic view of the mountain city. Unexpectedly, no one checked the tickets on the way to the top of the church. It was entirely up to oneself whether to buy a ticket or not. This good atmosphere of integrity gave me an indelible good impression of Iceland in the first place.

I climbed to the highest point of the church and looked around. "Wow" this is not a city, it is simply a giant flower show. The two to three-story lace buildings are built according to the mountains and arranged in an orderly manner. Among them, some are triangular, some are pentagonal, some have small bodies and big bellies, some have round foreheads on their shoulders, some are in Gothic style, and some are in Roman style. In addition, each small building is dyed with a unique color. The colors, when combined, are so colorful that they look like flower buds smiling in their sleep. It makes people uneasy.

When we walked out of the church and had close contact with the small buildings on both sides of the street, we were surprised to find that the longitude and latitude of these colorful small buildings were clearly defined. The streets between the small buildings are not wide but are orderly and clean. The road in the middle where cars run is either paved with rectangular stone bricks or has a black and gray cement floor. The cement is also mixed with white pebbles the size of soybeans for anti-skid purposes in winter. Both sides of the road are made of black and gray stone bricks, and green moss grows in the cracks of the stones, ready to jump out of the road and play with pedestrians. If there were no bright billboard reminders in Icelandic characters, it would really make people mistakenly think that they are stopping or roaming in a French or Italian urban community!

It is conceivable that every small building in the city center is operating a business, whether it is a restaurant, hotel or cafe, it is a small supermarket or various grocery stores. In order to attract customers, the door of each small building was decorated with lights and colors as if it were a grand occasion. Those with money used fluorescent lights to put up signs, while those with less money wrote out tempting menus in red letters on white paper and posted them on large wooden boards that were half a person tall and several feet wide. Each small building has its own characteristics and is never the same. The roof is either a platform or a triangle; its color is either white, red, blue, or green, whatever color you think of, it will be there. It makes people feel a kind of elegance full of publicity.

However, the most unforgettable thing about the mountain town of Reykjavik is the young people who were born and raised in Iceland. Almost all of them have wavy hair, smiling eyes, and gentleness. Especially the Icelandic girls walking on the street, all wearing fashionable clothes and carrying brand-name handbags. Almost all of them have tall figures, fair faces, high breasts and round buttocks twisting under their thin waists. Although the young men may be taller or shorter, they all have broad shoulders and slim waists. The most distinctive thing is their face shape, which is almost crescent-shaped when viewed from the side, with a tall nose inserted into it like a sailboat mast. Viewed from the front, most of the Icelandic young man's hair is brown and yellowish, and his slightly thick lips are almost surrounded by a thick, inch-long brown beard. In this way, compared to the heavyweight bodies of American aunts and uncles, Icelandic girls and boys are indeed eye-catching and dazzle passers-by. For this reason, my boss kept sending me compliments and whispers. At that time, I was completely sleepless, and my eyes were fixed on the beautiful girl passing by like a thief. In fact, this does not mean that I am flirtatious. Does everyone have a love for beauty? Besides, walking on the streets in the center of Shancheng City is like witnessing a real-life modeling competition without having to spend any money on tickets. Didn't someone say that? The real beauty of the human body is not seen in movies and TV shows, but among ordinary people.

However, when we walk into a cafe or restaurant, we realize that hidden under the colorful appearance of the building are sharp swords that "kill people without blinking an eye." In other words, all goods in Iceland, including food, are incredibly expensive. A small cup of ordinary coffee, up to 100 milliliters, costs four to five dollars, a small croissant costs four dollars, and an ordinary hamburger costs at least twelve dollars. Is it true that most food in Iceland needs to be imported, so it is expensive? I don't think so. Because even the products produced in Iceland are expensive. For example, buying a bottle of locally produced yogurt in Iceland is at least twice as expensive as the same brand of yogurt of the same size in the United States.

This really makes tourists swallow their broken teeth into their own stomachs! If a mute eats Coptis chinensis, only he knows whether it is bitter or not.

After checking into the hotel, we discovered that the situation was not as serious as we thought. Because the hotels we stayed in all had free breakfast, and the breakfast included meat, bread, milk, eggs, and Icelandic specialties, such as several particularly delicious vinegar fish or salted fish. So eat a hearty breakfast, and spend fifty bucks per person to have a delicious meal in the evening. If you make three meals in two, you will spend the day with enough food and clothing.

What’s more, we have a smart and capable Xiao Cao around us, so it’s hard for you to suffer even if you want to. That day, when we were tired and hungry from walking in the downtown area of ??Shancheng, Xiao Cao mysteriously gave me and the leader a strange look, then moved his mouth in the direction of the dock and whispered in a mysterious tone. : "Follow me! I'll take you to eat cheap and good lobster soup.

" Not long after, under the leadership of Xiao Cao, we walked into the pier next to the pier, which looked like an inconspicuous Chinese farmhouse. The small restaurant was actually filled with local residents who spoke Icelandic. Everyone was enthusiastically drinking lobster soup and eating fragrant toast. I hurried forward and looked at the price list. A large bowl of thick lobster soup, plus a toast over nine inches long and a small plate of side dishes only cost just over ten dollars. It was at least cheaper than the ones sold in restaurants on both sides of the street. Forty percent.

This small restaurant also offers fish skewers made from fresh cod, golden redfish or cusk pieces. The fish on each skewer is at least Four taels, bought and baked now, the price is only ten dollars. Because at six o'clock in the evening we have to go to the open-air blue lagoon (actually a huge outdoor hot spring) 40 kilometers away to take a bath and enjoy family happiness, and we will set off from the hotel at four o'clock in the afternoon. In order to avoid the pain of hunger, the leader made a prompt decision. In addition to a large bowl of lobster soup for each person, he also bought a bunch of cod and a bunch of golden red fish. Just like that, I, the leader and my daughter have this meal! I ate until my stomach bulged and I burped everywhere. After leaving the restaurant, the three of us were still chattering and praising the deliciousness of the lobster soup and the deliciousness of the fish. I have to tell the truth. It turns out that the bustling restaurants on both sides of the street are opened for people who come from thousands of miles away. It seems that the descendants of pirates are more cunning than foxes in doing business!

On the way back to the hotel, my boss and I learned that Xiao Cao had some unique tricks to save money on meals, and he was prepared. Xiao Cao quietly told my family leader that in order to make this trip to Iceland "cheap and good", she specially brought oil-free instant noodles from Korea, as well as a variety of biscuits, beef jerky, etc. What about snacks? Look at Xiao Cao, he is so smart that even his eyelashes are empty, I feel so inferior! However, then I thought about it, I can't be discouraged, people who know their shame will be brave! I made up my mind to learn from Xiao Cao. Next time I travel abroad, I must be even better than Xiao Cao. Not only will the lice on my body grow double eyelids, I must also be tall and tall with thick eyebrows and big eyes.

Although Icelanders are too shrewd in doing business, I still want to praise this country. Because the people of Iceland wisely chose a democratic system, so far, under the leadership of democratically elected leaders, 320,000 Icelandic people have built Iceland into one of the richest countries in the world. At present, Iceland's unemployment rate is low, industry and agriculture are booming, urban and rural management is well organized, there is no difference between urban and rural areas, everyone has free education and medical insurance, and people's lives are constantly improving. This is socialism in all its glory.

On that day, we visited two of the three major attractions in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, including a tour of the urban area and a bath in the world-famous open-air hot spring. Especially the latter, it allows us to appreciate what is the rarest happiness and the most brilliant surprise in life. Think about it, in the ice and snow, the whole person is washed by the warm spring water, and the hot spring is so big that it is almost endless, surrounded by strange volcanic lava rocks. This kind of wild, majestic, primitive, and seemingly How can the beauty of an alien planet not give people indescribable surprises, heart-wrenching excitement, and electric joy?

As for Lake Tj?rnin (also known as Lake Tj?rnin), which is located next to the Reykjavik City Hall and is known as the three major attractions in Reykjavik, we are at Visited before leaving Iceland. For the first time in my life, I saw so many white swans and gray swans wandering on that small lake. Because the length of the article is limited, I won’t go into details here.

The next morning, when I woke up from the sweet dream brought to me by soaking in the hot springs, the highlight of my trip to Iceland rushed towards me like a storm. Under the arrangement of the travel company, we embarked on a longing, mysterious and shocking three-day trip to southern Iceland.