Friday It's my fifth day in Iceland and I'm beginning to get a feeling for the country and the people.
	Particularly, I recognize the expanse, but also the meagreness of the landscape.
	The bus protects against the wind
	The country is permanently changing, is always moving. Today we passed by an area which suffered a volcanic eruption in 1918. It's a desert - kilometers of desert of lava and stones inhabited by human beings before. Half an hour later, we can see islands which resulted from an underwater eruption in the sixties.
	Wasserfall mit meinen winkenden 2 Metern
	In the glacier	Later, we stand on a glacier the ice of which is about 5.000 years old. The first gravel road was built at the end of the last century. Today, there is a asphalted ring road finished about 20 years ago. Branch roads meet that ring road, there are no connections to North, South, West or East or they aren't accessible the whole year.
	270.000 people live on the area of the former DRG. These people have kept an own language so that today's children are still able to read the original of the sagas written about 800 yaers ago.< So they insist in being peolpe with an own culture and identity and they aren't very pleased concerning well-meant advice of European or American politicians Winston Churchill: "Iceland is the biggest aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean, impossible to sink."	Grand Canyon in Iceland
	One word concerning internet and telecommunication: Iceland is digitally completely developed. All cities, villages and even farms are connected to each other and internet is intensively used. Iceland gives to his population a wire of 2 MB to Stockholm and of 4 MB to Toronto, a ten-fold increase is planned. That's it for today. Burkhard