It’s the last day of school. Seemed to be a frantic day today. There are all sorts of things to do. But in the evening we were off to catch a flight to Iceland. It’s a 3.5 hours flight going north. We can’t claim to be the first Bruneians going here, surely there must have been a few especially those from the civil servants for some government meeting or some sorts. But there can’t be that many of our countrymen who have been here. We landed at the international airport which is quite a long way from the capital Reykjavik (not easy to spell). The surrounding was still quite bright as if the sun never set here. In fact when we landed at 11.30pm, the sun was just about to set (wow magrib at 11.30 pm!). A few weeks ago the sun was setting past 12 midnight.
Iceland is huge but has the same population as Brunei. Two third of the population lives in the capital Reykjavik. The country is well known to be a 'bankrupt' country due to the financial crisis. A few of their prominent banks, known to provide high interests on savings and attracted a lot of institutions and even city councils in UK and Europe, were closed down during the height of the credit crunch. It’s like a ‘pyramid’ scheme on a grand scale, but not exactly like those eye-catching pyramid schemes we all know too well in SE Asia which gave unbelievable huge returns. 
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