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Article: Iceland sports lots of hot spots.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- September 15, 2003
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Byline: Melinda Marie Townsend
What's it like to live in a far-off place most of us see only on a vacation? Foreign Correspondence is a weekly interview with someone who lives in a spot you may want to visit.
Thorvaldur Arnason, 23, is majoring in integrated marketing at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. He is a native of Mosfellsbaer, Iceland.
Q. Is Iceland really cold?
A. The name is one big misconception. It's really not that cold. It rarely gets below 15 degrees in the winter. Summers are cool, but really nice. It never gets really hot.
The temperature doesn't fluctuate as much as it does in the U.S. It's also windy ...