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I’m just back yesterday from Iceland.
Most expensive place I’ve ever visited. £10-£15 a pint £30 for burger and chips. They wanted £80 just to swim in a lagoon.
How did you find the locals ?
We found most of them pretty unfriendly down to down right rude.
Also as much as Iceland is beautiful it’s not a patch on Scotlands beauty.
I kind of spoiled myself touring Scotland for the past few years.
And it was bloody cold. 9 degrees most days with a feel like temp of 6 because of the howling wind.
It was drizzling most days too and sulphur from the volcanoes make a lot of the island smell off eggs.
Even the water from the taps smelled and tasted of eggs.
I won’t go back.
But apart from the huge price tags, unfriendly locals, sub standard scenery, cold temperature, drizzle, smell of rotten eggs and undrinkable water, you liked it, yeah?
But apart from the huge price tags, unfriendly locals, sub standard scenery, cold temperature, drizzle, smell of rotten eggs and undrinkable water, you liked it, yeah?
I actually did enjoy myself.We were there fishing a few different rivers for salmon and I caught a few and lost a decent one. As well as landing some very tasty artic char.
I was able to swap a couple of my salmon for some smoked wild salmon to bring home.
It was a special place to fish but we couldn’t afford to fish the best rivers there as they are around £5000 a day to fish. That does include the lodges which are lovely. But way over our budget. £500 a day was expensive enough.
I always found Iceland really cheap with lots of choice. The queues at the checkout are long though.
Same here, I doubt you would spend £500 per week in Iceland, Sainsburys maybe, or Morrisons if you bought a shed load of Mahou genuine 4.8 % Spanish beer while on offer?
Saying that there are some stroppy types in Iceland, you rarely see them queueing at the checkout though.
Saying that there are some stroppy types in Iceland, you rarely see them queueing at the checkout though.
Iceland I guess has been over exposed to tourism as have many parts of the UK and EU. Locals get quite fed up with their places being overtaken. It was fine to a point years ago when people just arrived in the summer, factory week but now it every day of the year in the UK's countryside.
Governments, Welsh Assembly want to see them and those making dosh but ordinary people are not. Same in Scotland and Wales cannot say about the English country dwellers. Massive influx of people cumming into the areas to live some stay others just letting them out. The beaches used to be free then tourism increased and charges for parking came in. In the out seasons it was still free now its pay all year around. Crime has increased policing has not. Constant influx of Campers also used to be seasonal but not any more. Ordinary people did not mind too much in the past but that is not so now.
Im a Cornishman, and the bulk of those doing the moaning aren't even Kernowwen born themselves, and that's also quite widespread in Cymru. The hypocrisy is hilarious.
Its starting to backfire spectacularly in some of the Spanish resorts where tourists are staying away in significant numbers in response to protests and ordinary people are now starting to lose their jobs. Its suddenly not so jolly. They'll find in Wales, as everywhere else has, that the ordinary people are not neatly compartmentalised and isolated from the effects of it.
Ordinary people complain when shops close, when prices rise, when jobs in other sectors become saturated with applicants and wages begin to fall...
Ordinary people, the ones that moan, suffer first and suffer hardest.
And my apologies for going off topic. The Icelanders were fine when I was there, but that was 30 years ago and I speak good enough German to pretend not to be English when encountering Anglophobes.
Its starting to backfire spectacularly in some of the Spanish resorts where tourists are staying away in significant numbers in response to protests and ordinary people are now starting to lose their jobs. Its suddenly not so jolly. They'll find in Wales, as everywhere else has, that the ordinary people are not neatly compartmentalised and isolated from the effects of it.
Ordinary people complain when shops close, when prices rise, when jobs in other sectors become saturated with applicants and wages begin to fall...
Ordinary people, the ones that moan, suffer first and suffer hardest.
And my apologies for going off topic. The Icelanders were fine when I was there, but that was 30 years ago and I speak good enough German to pretend not to be English when encountering Anglophobes.
My favourite picture... never mind that apart from Gus Gus what have the Romans... sorry Bjorkers ever done for us, broke our banking system for one but seriously my lad went there last summer and from his phone pics it looked like a badly run inert waste recycling centre.
If nothing else though the prices bandied about by @The Flying Scotsman have made a possible pre Christmas stay in Tobego look even more attractive.
If nothing else though the prices bandied about by @The Flying Scotsman have made a possible pre Christmas stay in Tobego look even more attractive.
Their plenty of indigenous people put out and complaining about tourism and its affects on every day lives. They would not be direct adversely affected by a turn around in tourism on the contrary it would provide some piece. Possibly it may affect people eventually but ordinary people do not think about things like that they think of the now and the adverse effect like parking drains on services increased crime drugs and so on.
My dad says they don’t like us since the cod wars.My favourite picture... never mind that apart from Gus Gus what have the Romans... sorry Bjorkers ever done for us, broke our banking system for one but seriously my lad went there last summer and from his phone pics it looked like a badly run inert waste recycling centre.
If nothing else though the prices bandied about by @The Flying Scotsman have made a possible pre Christmas stay in Tobego look even more attractive.
We would be miles out in the sticks fishing and the locals would drive past us to their farms.
We would always smile and wave as they passed by.
They just glowered back at us.
Thing is it’s the farmers that own the land and lodges we stayed at and they get paid handsomely from the rent.
A great word to describe Iceland is bleak.
A lot of beautiful scenery but unlike Scotland there’s bugger all else there.
The Scots built castles and villages grew in our areas of beauty with centuries of history.
There’s also nearly zero wildlife there. Some seagulls and ducks and swans that’s it.
I couldn’t understand being away out in these remote areas and there being no wildlife.
They don’t have any cows and very few sheep but thousands of pony’s and donkeys.
I wondered what they ate so googled it.
They eat the horses apparently
Everyone's affected - it's just that those who are indirectly affected have less awareness of the likely impact.
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