Hot in London

Today was a hectic day ! I was working through the morning and then it became hot ! So hot and humid that it became impossible to sit in the lab; 30deg celsius. Lucky me, I know some back doors and relocated myself to the lab up on the 7th floor, it has an air conditioner, but shhhh, tell nobody :)).
Evening time we had a "hot pot" meal planned at a friend's place; nice house in Hammersmith where he lives with two other friends. On the way to the friend's house I was walking with new member in our lab, it is her and, she is from Iceland. She has joined our lab as a student for the summer time. She is tall, blond, pretty and very well educated. Apparently the Icelandic language is quite different from any other language and has no similarities (at least that's what she told me !). When she spoke on the phone, it was pleasant to listen, no hard sounds at all, compared for example to Arabic. She was joking that Iceland is not that icy and Iceland should be names swapped with Greenland, which is all ice. She also mentioned Iceland population is around 300k and therefore if a guy and a girl go for a date, they usually check a national-family-database to see how relative-related they are, probably with this population all are somehow related. Seriously, 300k is nothing, they probably know everybody by names! And think about corruption ... hard times :) I know so little about the county, i better check some maps tomorrow . . .
Ohh, the hot-pot meal was very good :)))))