A magical island, and it’s not only about the outdoors. Iceland has a transformative effect on people with a cultural life and literary legacy amply proven by Nobel Prize winners, its assured individuality also promotes a kind of egalitarianism and green thinking. It probably has the world’s highest concentration of dreamers, authors, artists and musicians, all inspired by the symphony of elements and reminded of of their utter insignificance in the greater scheme of things by the supercharged splendor surrounding them.