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lillibet

A Week in Iceland

Jul 04, 2016 13:10

Jason had a meeting in Finland the last week of school, so we decided that Alice and I would meet him in Reykjavik on his way home and spend a week showing her some of the country we fell in love with back in 2005.*

( Iceland Day by Day )

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gilana July 6 2016, 14:40:17 UTC

Thanks for writing all of this up -- sounds amazing! I've never been that interested in visiting Iceland before, but now it's definitely going on my list.

lillibet July 6 2016, 16:03:01 UTC

Just be sure to go sometime when you won't be too sad at missing the hot weather here. The temps were in the mid-50s this week and the average high in August is 68F--heaven for me, but I know other people who've been very sad at how cold it is.

wellstar July 8 2016, 01:37:00 UTC

Great write-up! I am looking forward to taking the kids some time, but want to wait until they're old enough to remember. Glad Alice (and the rest of you!) had such a good time. I agree that the similarities to Hawaii are striking--people always look at me funny when I say that, but it's true, even with the differences. Only two places I've ever been snorkeling. ;) Welcome home.

lillibet July 8 2016, 03:15:05 UTC

Thanks! I suppose all volcanic islands in the middle of the ocean look alike, to some degree?

melted_snowball July 9 2016, 11:32:39 UTC

Somewhat amusingly, da_lj and I will be there next month, with me arriving a few hours before him, me from Finland, him from Canada.

Thanks for the writeup! I'm excited about the trip.

lillibet July 9 2016, 13:28:55 UTC

I feel as though everyone is going to Iceland this year, which is marvelous. I hope you love it!

da_lj August 1 2016, 21:39:14 UTC

After re-reading your travelogue just now, I've got a question! How awkward was it to pick up and drop off the wifi device? I was looking into trawler.com and it could either be a laughably easy or annoying process, after arriving/getting rental car / finding the right store to pick it up- without wifi :)

Tx, D

lillibet August 2 2016, 04:36:59 UTC

We hadn't planned on it in advance, but the rental place offered it to us and I decided to go for it. So it was pretty simple. The agent asked for my phone to connect it, then handed me the device and connecting cables in a plastic box. When we dropped off the car, we turned it in at the desk.