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☆ 5 expats who relocated to Iceland break down the biggest challenges they faced after moving
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Five expats to Iceland told Business Insider about the biggest challenges they faced. "I used to be afraid of winter coming," Jewells Chambers, who relocated from Brooklyn seven years ago and makes the podcast All Things Iceland, said. Public transport is 'terrible'"Driving is the standard in Iceland," Chambers said. "I think tourism has been wonderful for Iceland," Basappa said. And the main street in Reykjavik used to be Icelandic boutiques, but "everything got swept up and turned into puffin shops," she said.

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☆ A British expat moved to Iceland and struggled to adjust to the seasonal darkness and lack of choice for groceries
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Sonia Nicolson moved to Iceland "for love" in February 2016 after meeting her husband in a bar in Scotland while working at a university in southern England. Deciding whether to live as a couple was a case of "either him coming to the UK or me coming to Iceland," Nicolson said. "I was absolutely exhausted in my career, had worked, worked, worked, worked, worked, traveled a huge amount, and jet lag had never really caught up with me," Nicolson said. She first visited Iceland on a work trip and later spent a month exploring the island in 2015. Though you have to pay for healthcare in Iceland, it's affordable and easy to get same-day doctors' appointments, Nicolson said.

Persons: —, Sonia Nicolson, Nicolson, you've, Grace Dean, They're, I've Organizations: Service, Business, Airbnb, Iceland, OECD, Tourism, Lights, Hallmark Locations: Iceland, Scotland, England, Edinburgh, India, Japan, Reykjavik, COVID, playgroups

☆ I went to Iceland for the first time. Here are 8 things that surprised me.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I visited Iceland for the first time in November on a reporting trip. Grace Dean/Business InsiderBut Iceland's population is concentrated in the west of the country. Grace Dean/Business InsiderYou can't find the chains you're used toThere's no McDonald's, Starbucks, or Burger King in Iceland. I found this surprising considering how far west of the UK Iceland is. Grace Dean/Business InsiderA lot of Polish people live in IcelandAccording to data from Statistics Iceland, more than 20% of Iceland's population was born overseas.

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☆ Do Landscapes Shape The Way We Think? / Why Was Philosophy Born In Greece? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Adam Nicolson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A few years ago, my wife, Sarah, and I went on a sailing trip on the eastern Aegean. Thirty or forty miles to the south of our boat was Miletus, the birthplace of some of the first recorded theorists of the physical world. Across a nearby peninsula, just 70 miles away, was Lesbos, the island of Sappho and Alcaeus, the greatest early lyric poets. To the south in Samos was the birthplace of Pythagoras, an early theorist of an everlasting soul. It struck me that not so far out of view from the cockpit of our small boat was the whole province in which Greek philosophy had begun.

Persons: Sarah, Heraclitus, Alcaeus, Pythagoras Locations: Turkey, Miletus, Ephesus, Lesbos, Samos

☆ UK castle could be yours for $37,000, but there’s a catch
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A sprawling Scottish castle is on sale for offers over £30,000 ($37,000), but there is a catch; its current owners estimate that it requires an additional £12 million ($14.8 million) for restoration. Situated on Fetlar, the fourth largest of the Shetland Islands, Brough Lodge is in one of the most remote parts of the UK. The island is home to around 69 people, according to the Fetlar Community Association website – an increase from its lowest population of 48 in early 2009. Nestled into the hillside, the castle overlooks Fetlar’s grassland and rugged cliffs stretching down to the sea, as well as the surrounding islands. It has been empty since the 1970s, although it was made wind and watertight about 10 years ago by its current owners, the Brough Lodge Trust, following a fundraising campaign.

Persons: Arthur Nicolson, ”, Drew Ratter Organizations: CNN, Fetlar Community, “ Locations: Scottish, Fetlar, Shetland, Brough, Edinburgh, London, Scotland

☆ ‘The Ghost at the Feast’ Review: When America Kept to Itself
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Paul Kennedy | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The 19th-century world was emphatically multipolar, even if the British Empire held outsize influence in some areas outside Europe. The decades after 1945 were dominated by two nuclear powers—America and the Soviet Union. But the years before World War II cannot be summarized simply, or explained in a sentence or two. It was an economic force, all right, but it usually declined membership in international bodies or security arrangements. In 1919 the experienced British diplomat Harold Nicolson had called it “the ghost at all our feasts.”

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