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Iceland still offers winter fun for tourists despite country's financial trauma

We figured the driver taking us to a New York airport didn't know much about our destination when we said we were going to Iceland and he asked us to spell it. "Oh," he said. "The bankrupt country." Yes, the bankrupt country. Not the volcanic island south of the Arctic Circle with the near-lunar terrain that astronauts once practiced on. Not the home of a swinging Reykjavik nightlife, and other-worldly native musicians like Bjork and Sigur Ros. Not the land with spectacular scenery and... Full Story
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