Romance in Reykjavik

You need your gloves in Iceland: it's cold. I spotted this sign, with its artistic display of lost gloves, in the centre of Reykjavik.

It seems to capture the underplayed, knowing humour and phlegmatic stoicism of the Icelanders.

No tractors on weekdays

Welcome to Reykjavik. Cool, happy and peaceful, Reykjavik will only tolerate tractors on its main road outside of rush hour, thank you. The ring road around Iceland connects all its main inhabited areas. It was completed in 1974 – before that, going by sea was the way to reach other parts of the island.