Sunday, July 7, 2019 In Icelandic, a profoundly complicated language, you have to change the case endings depending on whether you’re talking to a male or a female. Vertu Sæll (pronounced “vashtu syte-luh,” more or less) is goodbye spoken to a man. And so it is with sorrow that I bid farewell to the men and women of this wild place. It’s been such a short visit. I managed to sleep all the way till […]
Read moreMonth: July 2019
My Trip to Iceland
To make navigating easier, here are my Iceland entries, in order:
Read moreThe So-Called “Golden Circle”
Saturday, July 6, 2019 I got up at 5:40, drank tea and showered, all the while trying to be quiet so I wouldn’t wake up Molly. At 8:00 I called the guy at NiceTravel and learned that we had to be at the City Center Bus Stop #1 in half an hour, not 9:00 as it said on their website, since it was their first of many pick-up spots. The Golden Circle is as crowded […]
Read moreFarewell, Westfjords
Friday, July 5, 2019 What the Icelandic woman said to me turned out to be true: all you have to do to board Air Iceland Direct from Ísafjörður to Reykjavík is say your name so they can check you off a list. No ticket, no ID, no showing up much in advance. The prop jet (about ten rows long) got us into Reykjavík in only half an hour. Fortunately we flew into the little airport […]
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