- Rainbows are a common sight. You can see them on a daily basis, usually on the mountains.
- Weather forecasts are accurate only about the temperature. The weather changes constantly: usually it's sunny, rainy, cloudy and windy every day.
Transportation & traffic
- Public transportation is free for anyone.
- Parking is free.
- Internal flights are cheap. One-way ticket from Akureyri to Reykjavik costs 4990 ISK (27 €) at the lowest. Same trip by bus is 9000 ISK (49 €).
- Drivers respect pedestrians. Usually you only get a nice smile (instead of serious honking) when crossing a street at the wrong time.
Food & drink
- Opening hours for grocery stores are weird. Usually they open between 10–12 AM and close at 6–7.30 PM. 1011 is open 24/7 and Samkaup Strax until 11 PM but their selection is narrower and pricing is outrageous.
- There are no fresh meat counters. Fresh fish can be bought from fish stores.
- Cow meat in Icelandic is 'nauta' which is the same in Finnish.
- There are no scales at vegetable compartments. Cashiers weight them.
- Non-fat milk tastes like white-colored water.
- Icelandic drink sour milk too.
- There are a lot of products with Finnish labels. Some are only in Swedish and Finnish.
- Grocery stores sell only low-alcohol beer < 2,25 %.
- Liquor store Vinbuðin has only one cider (apple flavoured Kopparberg) in their selection. Tap ciders are unknown concept at bars. Local women drink beer.
- Hearts are all over Akureyri. Even the red light in traffic lights is heart-shaped.
- A pack of tobacco costs normally 700 ISK (3,8 €) but on "night sale" (after 9 PM) 900 ISK (4,9 €). All tobacco products are hidden under the counter by law.
- Local operator Siminn censors sites. For example, I cannot drool on recent celebrity nipple-slips at egotastic.com.
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