Episode 8North of Kopasker is the northernmost part of Iceland and as it was just coming up to mid-summer my lot thought that they had timed it well to see the midnight sun. Not that they are usually awake at that time, nor is it actually the middle of the night here. They don’t have daylight saving, not much point when you have 24 hr daylight but they are still slightly ahead of real time. Sunset such as it is, isn’t until after midnight). the lady a...

Here L will take a couple of paragraphs and explain the tree situation or lack there of.Apparently there used to be reasonable forests here at the time of settlement. However, the people of the time needed the timber for construction and for firewood so the forests got totally destroyed. In the 20th century a few small re-aforestation project got under way. So there is some trees here, mostly they are a conifer, probably spruce, along with some birch and arctic ...