While driving and camping around Icelend, Linda and I noticed something interesting. There is so much pasture lands in Icelend, and we saw hundreds of herds of animals. Mostly we saw sheep. Like Ireland, sheep are highly domesticated animals, prized for their wool and meat. We also saw dozens and dozens of herds of horses; more than we’d ever seen anywhere else.

What we didn’t see were many cows. In fact, we never saw cows at all until our third day while we were driving in the interior, near Mt. Hella. We are used to seeing cows all around while in the states. One of my favorite pastimes is to roll down my car window and moo at cows while driving by. I never got to moo in Iceland.

I was quite curios about the lack of cows there. On the second day of wandering, while stopped in a small town for a coffee break, I asked Google (who knows everything) if there were cows in Iceland. There are, as we found out the next day.

We were both curious about the vast number of horses. Do people raise that many horses to ride? Do they raise them to race? Linda asked Google if people in Iceland eat horse meat. Google responded something like this:

“Horsemeat is a staple of Icelandic meals, although when Icelandicars raise horses, they keep horses they eat separate from those they ride, and don’t usually name the horses they raise for food”.

Most of the meals we ate while there we cooked while camping. As far as we know, we never ate any horaemeat. I’d hate to think that we had a Appaloosa Stew or a My Friend Flicka Burger. But again, when in Rome . . .