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13. august to 30. august 2001

Iceland

Henning Nielsen
2005-09-21 18:51:34

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Iceland. Check-out from the guest-house. I leave my bag for a later pick-up. Now the job is to spend this day without having a place to return back to.

It's a looooonnnngggggg hike to Seltfjarnarnes, a suburb of Reykjavik. I walk alont the bay - and take bus no 3 back.

I also would like to see the National-museum. But it's closed until december of 2002, and thats too long to wait. Instead I find an interesting viking-exhibition at the culture-house in Reykjavik.

Im getting tired - and then a movie is always a great idea. "Kiss of the dragon" is the name of the movie. And it's just as bad as the title suggests. Dinner and a cup of coffee at one of the citys cafe's, before I - at 11 pm - take the airport-bus to Keflavik

Here we have a surprise. There is no 02.10 for Copenhagen at the monitors!. Some check-in-assistent doesn't look to happy as I show my ticket to a none-existing flight. There is nothing else to do, than take a taxi back to Hotel Loftlei?i in Reykjavik - all at the expense of Icelandair. So I finally turn in at 2 am.

Thursday august 30'th

Not much sleep under these circumstances. The phone wakes me at 5.30!

Back to Keflavik at 6 - by taxi - Icelandair is the sponsor.

Check in. This time it's ok. There is a plane for Copenhagen at 8.05. 3 hours to Copenhagen, so the time is 1 pm as we land. Then it's just to find the train back to Vejle.

Post scriptum

A complaint about the chaotic trip back home resulted in a well-meant "we-are-sorry"-letter from Icalandair and also a small replacement. The simply forgot to tell me, that the night-flight was cancelled a few months earlier. They sent me a check for 500 dkr - and next time im on an Iceland-air flight it will be on business. And I'm sure that someday I will use that possibility.