The car rental counter at Keflavík Airport is always busy. Visitors collect their keys, load up on insurance options they half-understand, and drive into a landscape that looks, from the terminal window, like it should be easy. Wide roads, no traffic, open sky.

Forty minutes later, somewhere on a coastal highway, the wind picks up. Not a gentle breeze — a sideways force that pushes the car half a lane over. The weather app still says partly cloudy. The sky disagrees. And somewhere ahead, a single-lane bridge appears with no warning, and another car is already on it.

This is Iceland. It is absolutely safe to drive — but it is nothing like driving anywhere else you have been.

The honest answer: Yes, but…

Let’s get this out of the way: Iceland is not a dangerous country to drive in. The roads are well-maintained,

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