The country is starkly beautiful, swimming in the Blue Lagoon, a steamy outdoor sauna amidst lave fields, is very cool, and the people are very friendly.

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"The Rhondda is great and the people are very friendly, " he said.

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This is the first time I've been to the United States, and San Diego is a really nice place and the people are very friendly.

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The course has been good and the people here are very friendly.

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It's not that people weren't friendly, but they were cautious, and very wary of me.

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And wonderful people -- and very similar to Americans in the sense that -- very open, very friendly -- partly because -- we were talking about this earlier -- they have a similar sort of frontier spirit.

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"It's across the board--it's a very tumultuous time for people in the energy industry, " says Brian Kennedy, a spokesman for the oil-friendly Institute for Energy Research.

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