In the last few days I had the fortune to visit Iceland for the first time, and I loved the country. The people are very friendly, and the landscapes are just stunning. The capital, Reykjavik, also has a very cool atmosphere, and it can be quite picturesque, as you can see in the picture above, taken at Lake Tjörnin with the city hall in the background in the left corner.

Also look at the geyser blowing off steam every couple of minutes.

And finally, Þingvellir National Park has some beautiful landscapes.

I was reading this morning about the countries with the highest risk of a natural disaster. Wikipedia has a list with the World Risk Index, calculated by the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security. The map above is generated with this data.

If you have never seen a picture of a soldier like the one in the statue above, then you don't know who Conrad Schumann is. This soldier from the East was one of the first and most famous defectors to West Germany, when the border was being built and was just a line of barbed wire. This statue is located on a building near Bernauer Straße.

A couple of days ago I was walking by the Berliner Dom and I realised I hadn't seen the progress of the Humboldt Forum construction in a while. The project is scheduled to finish in 2019, and, as you can see in this picture, it's definitely moving along.

Eurostat has an interesting dataset containing the crude marriage rate for the last decades across the EU. It's quite remarkable how, even if Portugal has one of the lowest rates in the EU, it used to be one of the highest in the 70s.

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