Can we find non meat foods in the land of the Vikings? We'll see if we can meet the challenge.
We're off to a rocky start when we are stopped in our tracks by this menu around the corner from our hotel. Note foal is on the menu. We knew we'd see horse meat on menus which means those hard working Icelandic ponies that take tourists tolting around the country side, the horses that are so revered by the Icelandic people that they appear on every refrigerator magnet, calendar and tee
shirt, those horses end their days on a plate? And they repay their hardworking horses by eating their babies?
Although minke whales are not technically endangered, their numbers are dangerously decreasing. It's odd that a country that rakes in millions each year from tourism, tourism that includes to a large part whale watching excursions, turns around and kills whales to eat them. It's not like the native people of the arctic who depend on whale to live, these people have many other food choices. Like puffins. Who, by the way, mate for life, use the same nest every year which they thoroughly houseclean before they leave to set out to sea and have only one chick per year. You gotta love them. So why eat them?
We did find amazing food at Glo, a vegetarian place serving delicious meals every day. No foals.
The stark natural beauty of Iceland"s lava fields, waterfalls, geysers and volcanos is breathtaking.
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