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Iceland? Ouch! People are lovely and awesome but the place is barren, cold, windy and desolated. I'd take a lot of places in southern Europe, instead.

• Aachen 4y ago
  Windy: can confirm. It's not that cold, like, it gets just as cold in a lot of countries a lot further south, but the wind is what kills you if you don't wear enough layers. One of the things I also didn't like about Amsterdam: always windy. Desolated: I wouldn't say that, but then we went at a time where the F-roads were closed so we didn't go into the interior. When driving around, it was very rare not to see another soul for so much as an hour even in late autumn. For the country with iirc the lowest population density of Europe, this surprised me a lot. I thought that it was a Dutch and Rhine-area feature not to be able to get away from other humans. Bare nature and ice features (cold): that is what you go to Iceland for! If you aren't into that, either you picked the wrong place or you've picked an expensive place to pick up on that! I can definitely accept the wind for how cool the nature is in Iceland. Southern Europe, on the other hand, is where I'd not want to go, at least not outside of winter! Heard of the first forest fire in Spain last week already, no thank you.