Day 12 - Isafjordur, Iceland

More info about Iceland. They don't have a military. Crime is low (~1 murder every 3 years, most involving intoxication). There's one prison that holds 85 people and a small jail for white collar criminals. Prison sentences are relatively short. They don't believe that long-term incarceration helps to make a better person. 85% of the houses are heated with geothermal energy. No need to shovel snow as they pipe the hot water underneath their driveways. We walked around the town today, saw another beautiful rainbow (it's in the pics). Also, went to a Maritime Museum. It is a wooden building, with incredibly steep, short steps which went up to 4 stories (definitely wouldn't be up to code in SJ!) It was like a story book place with little lookout windows (the top floor being only a few feet wide, which you can see at the top of the pic). On the 2nd floor, were all sorts of accordians from the 1800's and 1900's throughout Europe -- not sure what they had to do with Maritime, but they were really cool. There's a pic of a local bakery and a 1924 Ford bakery truck that the owner brought over from England (it's parked in front of the bakery).