heading north

in fact, i headed this direction only three times: twice i had to go to scotland to work - so no free choice. but last year in july i had the chance to spend some days even more far north: iceland - just the name makes me freeze. but of course, my curiousity was stronger, and so i went there.

in fact, iceland can be counted as the northernmost country on this planet - depending on the definition of 'norhern-most'. there are places in canada, russia, finnland, norway, sweden, denmark and united states that are located further north than any point of iceland. but all of these countries are much bigger. so on the other hand, their southern borders are located much further in the south than the southern-most point of iceland.

so, iceland's southern border is the nothern-most border of all countries, and therefore iceland could be seen as the entirely northern-most country in the world. oh yes, like these kind of mind-games - at least when my brain is not frozen. and even if you won't agree with this definition - iceland still lies so much in the north that it is **** cold.

and if we use the same definition to look to the other three directions, then fiji is the eastern-most country and tonga the western-most. both countries i have just visited. so there is only one country left for me to visit the four 'edges' of this planet. now you can guess which country this might be.