...recently it was announced that all three McDonald’s restaurants in Iceland would be closed down because the master piece of culinary art "The Big Mac" has become far too expensive. Therefore, the story goes Iceland must be in a hell of a state...this rarely shows what a pickle a country can get into when its three main banks go belly up! What these reports fail to reveal is that this great American institution insisted that all materials for their infamous Big Macs had to be imported from Germany and this meant that the far inferior ingredients became twice as expensive as a hamburger made from local produce (yes even tomatoes and lettuce are grown in Icelandic greenhouses - heated by natural geothermal energy!). There may well be a moral in this story!
Incidentally - Iceland did not implode after the financial disaster which befell it (honestly, I took my family there in August!), far from it - during the good times they invested sizeable sums of money wisely building a dynamic modern society whose population are the most literate in the world. Even before the 'Viking Bankers' they had an extremely good standard of living, built mainly on harnessing their natural resources such as fisheries and geothermal energy, which of course is still the basis of their economy. Even better, the devaluation of their currency means that a holiday to Iceland has never been better value for money. So if you have always wanted to go but thought it was too expensive take another look…it’s not cheap but one of the most beautiful countries in the world can now be explored without selling the family jewels - and this won't last forever!!
Take me there…
And for burger lovers out there, fear not, Iceland is home to a wealth of truly delicious food. Head to west Iceland and try Hotel Hraunsnef’s phenomenal burgers whose beef is sourced from the farm across the valley!
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