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nwhikerHad to get up early and be out before we could her to the delicious hotel breakfast. They kindly made us to go bags, which I was hoping would contain a croissant, but also just boring and rather dry sandwiches. 😂
Public transportation to the airport, easy and efficient. Two hour flight to Oslo, where we picked up our bags and checked them back in for the Icelandair flight.
The volcano had spewed its guts a few days before and stopped so no lava, but we were able to see the evidence of the latest bit of eruption from the plane. This time there was some significant damage to infrastructure that they were still working on, the hot water pipe that provides heating to the Reykjanes peninsula was out of commission, which meant space heaters at the airport and I'm sure in many homes.
Flight went well, landed, grabbed luggage -it made it- and picked up our rental car. We drove to the apartment/hotel we had booked, after a quick stop at our regular supermarket.
Yeah, I know, Iceland feels comfortable enough to have know where we're going shopping and to which pool.
Most of the times we've stayed at this type of place, they at least had salt and pepper. This place had salt only. It's a good thing they had that and the lamb was pre-seasoned. What I pretentiously described as "medallions d'agneau au romarin avec pommes de terres nouvelles."
Plan for the next day: swimming pool, Geysir, and Gullfoss, the big waterfall on the Golden Circle. We knew we wouldn't have time for Thingvellir, and indeed, we didn't.
Public transportation to the airport, easy and efficient. Two hour flight to Oslo, where we picked up our bags and checked them back in for the Icelandair flight.
The volcano had spewed its guts a few days before and stopped so no lava, but we were able to see the evidence of the latest bit of eruption from the plane. This time there was some significant damage to infrastructure that they were still working on, the hot water pipe that provides heating to the Reykjanes peninsula was out of commission, which meant space heaters at the airport and I'm sure in many homes.
Flight went well, landed, grabbed luggage -it made it- and picked up our rental car. We drove to the apartment/hotel we had booked, after a quick stop at our regular supermarket.
Yeah, I know, Iceland feels comfortable enough to have know where we're going shopping and to which pool.
Most of the times we've stayed at this type of place, they at least had salt and pepper. This place had salt only. It's a good thing they had that and the lamb was pre-seasoned. What I pretentiously described as "medallions d'agneau au romarin avec pommes de terres nouvelles."
Plan for the next day: swimming pool, Geysir, and Gullfoss, the big waterfall on the Golden Circle. We knew we wouldn't have time for Thingvellir, and indeed, we didn't.
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