Reykjavikian layover
I love Iceland. It has to be the most efficient country I have ever visited (although from what I’ve heard Germany may give it a run for it’s money). We landed at 6:30am and even with a minor mishap with Arvin’s bag, we were in our rental car driving away from Keflavik at 7:30am, the time I had optimistically planned (I thought with immigration and getting the rental car, we would have been off by 8:30am).
Apparently I am pretty awesome because I still remember my way around Iceland from when I was there about 2 years ago. I drove us straight to downtown Reykjavik and after walking around a bit we found an open coffee shop sorta place to get lunch. Luckily for me, Arvin is the talkative social sort so it helps counteract my off-putting surliness. Arvin struck up a conversation with the gal running the place and after hearing we we backpacking Europe she regaled us with stories of her Europacking (new shorthand? We’ll see what else I come up with) trip 8 years ago which ended up with her and her friend dreadfully ill in Greece. It was definitely a good idea for us to have rented a car because it gave us the freedom to drive around and go where we wanted instead of being attached to the less than flexible bus schedule. Going to the Blue Lagoon again was totally worth it.
