The travel industry in Iceland has a great responsibility when it comes to protecting the fragile nature of the volcanic island. Regrettably they don’t always realize that and are not held accountable.
“Those were a unusual times. An unnamed member of Parliament, who was also a member of the Media Committee, called my brother-in-law when I applied for the job and asked if I was still a Communist. Actually I had never been a Communist, but I had participated in protesting the Vietnam War. My brother-in-law answered no, telling the congressman that I had studied in the United States, not Russia. To that end, I was immediately hired. The institution at that time had a political bias.”
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Two years before making history with one small step onto the Moon, Neil Armstrong went salmon fishing in northern Iceland. A picture of him, standing by a river, is exhibited in a regional museum, but the image is so small that at first you might assume it’s just a regular snapshot of recreational life in the 1960s. Smiling faintly as he holds a fishing rod, the 36-year-old Armstrong could pass for a local until you notice his baseball cap and fancy aviator shades. And, of course, his four layers of clothing.
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