Iceland
Our last few days! We can't believe this year has gone by so fast. We had booked Iceland as our last stop one year ago because one it looked amazing and two in order for our travel insurance to be valid we had to have a return flight back to the US. If you have ever looked at flights to Europe you may notice that Icelandair is one of the cheaper airlines and they always fly through Iceland as a stopover. The Icelandic government helps to subsidize the cost of the flight to try to get visitors to go through or stay in Iceland. It seems to have worked because according to the latest data from the Icelandic Tourist Board, a total of 2.2 million tourists visited Iceland in 2017. This is up from 1.8 million the year previous. Bearing in mind that the total population of Iceland is less than 350,000 the total number of visitors to the country last year was more than six times the number of people living here. The largest share of these tourists, or 576,000 hailed from the United Sta...
