Ah, i love the cold and winter months. Cant stand the heat…
Iceland is amazing @MarieHuggins - I went late November and it was cold but gorgeous. What a great place for a Christmas sit!! 
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Sounds amazing but i have another sit in Cornwall, can’t get enough of the place…and my first cat sit😊
I can speak some but it wouldn’t be a problem if you don’t. So many people speak English and there’s always google translate. As long as you say Bonjour, s’il vous plait, merci, etc to be polite then you’ll get by.
Hi Marie, as a Kiwi, can I put a plug in for New Zealand?
Reasons: when we spent time in the UK, it surprised us how easily we fitted into the life there; Kiwis are closet English!
Good weather is coming in New Zealand, and there are lots of folks planning holidays, so lots of sits coming up.
Temperate climate, lots of variety, great food, and you can get a nice cuppa tea here!
Message me if you’re keen and want to know more.
Cheers
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Yes and the microphone feature is fabulous when you’re actually needing to speak to someone.
You can live like a European too.
Do it part time.
Apparently a very high percentage of Icelandic female DNA is actually Irish (the Vikings stopped here for female slaves on the way to settle Iceland).
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This will only work if you’ve a new enough phone….won’t work on mine 
It works on my 2018 iPhone XR. It is quite handy when the menu is in a Slavonic language in a Cyrillic script (and when the restaurant has Wifi).
Mines an older model iPhone 8 I think. I do use google translate but not sure it’d translate text by hovering over it….maybe I’m wrong?
That is only one year older than mine.
My Apple translation app has a menu at the bottom where one can choose a camera. When I press the button, it takes a picture and tries to read any text in a chosen language. And gives a translation.
The google translation app can do it live.
To put on my Genetic Genealogy Nerd hat for a moment. 
It sounds like you are referring to haplogroups, rather than DNA overall. We inherit 50 percent of our DNA from our mothers and 50 percent from our fathers, regardless of our biological sects*
Haplogroups are separate–bio females inherit two Xs (one from paternal g-mother and one from mother and her line) but the maternal haplogroup is the maternal line, straight up. Bio males inherit the Y from the father and the X from the mother.
- I had to edit the proper word. /eyeroll
Or it is the mitochondrial DNA (or RNA whatever). Those are maternally inherited.
I feel the same way.
Then maybe you should look at Canada and Alaska!!