Wait...you DON'T have "yellow lights" in your home country? I thought those were global standard. We have them here in Canada, always have.

We have a yellow light for a bit before the red, as a warning that the red is coming. But not after.

Oh, yeah the "after the red" part we don't have here either. I misunderstood.

Ahhh, yer making me homesick!

I still wonder why you went from one weather extreme to the other, but I think I have an idea. :)

Yeah, its the same in hotels while I was on vacation in Sweden.
It's weird but useful as you don't lose a card key.

That would make sense!

Many hotels here in the states do that too.
Again it's to try to prevent folks losing their key but it also keeps you from leaving lights on or charging stuff when you go out.
You're suppose to charge laptops, phones and tablets at night so they don't go "missing".
"Pesky tourists wasting our money they pay us on electricity!"

We definitely need those yellow lights before the green lights in America.

Just like cats, there are no yellow lights before green lights in America.

1. That's... interesting. I suppose there's a reason for that but I can't think of it right now.

2. Wait.... so lights in Iceland go Red Yellow Green AND Green Yellow Red?

3. Huh... okay. There's still places where you can get your own right?

4. Cool if you're into that.

5. Sounds pretty cosmopolitan nice.

One dude from Nebraska asked where I was from in the Midwest. He noticed I was wearing a Menard's stocking cap. :)
I'm actually starting to be able to pick out Americans overseas, and one way is the baseball style caps we wear. Some of us have a bit of a paunch (believe me, they have fat Icelanders too), and of course, the accents.

yeah I'm sure we stick out like a sore thumb with our caps... what kind of hats do other nations wear?

Some wear flat caps, others stocking caps. Sometimes no hats at all.

Ice ice Baby

And it's the only place where you can see the Mid-Ocean Ridge without getting your feet wet. Take advantage of it!

Like Hawaii, Iceland has 'fresh-this-week' land, too. I still remember when the Island of Surtsey rose out of the sea when I was a kid. I was at our local department store in Romantic Willimantic, Connecticut when we saw the footage of the eruptions on the CBS Evening News. I had little experience with color TV anyway, and Mom and Dad had to drag me away from it. Hey, it was almost 60 years ago...

I created a Sci-Fi background that had sub-shuttle trains running through underground vaccuum tunnels... Iceland was a major hub, because it had multiple tunnels coming in from either side of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge...

Have you tried whistling to the wild horses? I am not advising you to try petting them or feeding them, but apparently they are so well domesticated (From when they were originally brought over to the island) many will just come right up to you if you whistle to get their attention.

You'll be fine AS LONG as you don't mention Karno's name!

He's...........different! ;D

The Westin Anthrocon hotel has a similar thing where you have to put a key in to get the AC to work. However it is simply a light sensor in a slot so people found you can just shove a business card into it and it won't cut off the AC in the room.

Wuff's seen that "use keycard to enable xxx" trick in some of the hotels here in the US as well. But those Vrghr have encountered used the card to enable the room's air conditioning/heater, and not the lights/outlets.

Sorta makes sense though, as it ensures that folks don't leave lights on or appliances running when there's no one in the room. And it helps keep guests from misplacing the cards somewhere in the room.

NOTE: in the rooms wuffy has found these, they didn't actually need the "keycard" - - any equivalent card could be slotted in to enable the function. Those credit card-style "loyalty" cards for restaurants and other shops would work as well.

I didn't know they had hot dogs in other countries at all. ( ○ (oo) ○ ）

Now I WANT hot dogs with crunchy onions! ( ^ (oo) ^ )

I'm glad you're having fun over there, don't forget to make some videos.

It's a thing in Iceland in a big way.