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Reykjavik, Iceland-Oct. 6, 2018

Finally good wifi.  My posts will be out of order, but I will catch up with our adventures soon  and those will be in order.  Today we had to leave the Viking Sun.  Our fourteen day adventure had come to an end.   All is all, it was a great experience but we did hit two bad storms.  Because of that, we lost two ports of call, Gdańsk, Poland and Aalborg, Denmark.   The winds and waves were so strong on Tuesday that I wound up staying in bed all afternoon.  I’ll show you what I ate that evening for supper.

Yep, five Ritz crackers and a coke.  (I ate one before I took the picture.)
This was our last breakfast on our ship.  We were boarding a transfer to the Bergen airport at 9:15.
Here we are on our Iceland Air flight to Reykjavik. The seats were really close together. We both had backpacks that did not fit under the seat.  It wasn’t that the bags were bulging, There was a metal bar that blocked them from going under. Thank goodness it was only a two hour flight!  I can’t believe Frank smiled  for this picture!

We had a very bumpy landing in Reykjavik.   We had to use an outside staircase to get off.  The winds was howling and the rain was torrential.  Evidently they were having what Icelanders call a “Code Yellow”.   They kept us on the plane for a quite while hoping it would get better. It did not. Finally, holding onto the railing for my dear life, I managed to navigate the stairs. Getting on the bus to take us to the terminal we were crowded in like sardines, plus we were all soaking wet! It was hard to find a place to stand, let alone find a pole to hold onto.  I hung onto Frank.  Besides if we fell, it would have only been onto someone else!

 

We made it inside the airport. Now to navigate through the code yellow to our bus to our hotel.
It was still howiling and pouring. We used a luggage cart to keep us grounded.  Here  is what it looked like outside once we were safely in our bus, but it was impossible to capture the real  scene.
We ate at a sports bar not far from our hotel called Bastard.   Fitting to top off the day!
Look who we saw taking a nap in a book store.

Tomorrow we have an all day tour called “The Golden Cirlce”.   The weather forecast is for partly sunny skies and 40 F.   No more code yellows please!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 Replies to “Reykjavik, Iceland-Oct. 6, 2018”

  1. WOW what a day! At least the rest of your trip was good weather!! Loved reading your blog!!

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