We were due to fly last evening, but literally 15 minutes prior to boarding the flight was cancelled due to technical reasons. Took Iceland Air several hours to sort it all out, evidently they rebooked the entire flight onto the next day, but had to bump arriving passengers coming in from Europe to make it all happen, then bussed the people what appears to be all over western Iceland. Reminder that the tourist high season is still in full swing, it was Friday night so the folks from IA were probably sweating bullets trying to find the last hotel rooms from Keflavík to Selfoss to Bifröst. Look it up. It must have taken 2-2 1/2 hours to get there last night. Fortunately Mom looked appropriately pathetic in her wheelchair and they didn’t do that to us, we were placed in a very nice hotel in Reykavik downtown area. Which can only mean ONE THING: More geocaches for Birgit!!!
But this also means we can enjoy another beautiful sunny day in Iceland, and there is that. I had my chip reader in my backpack this time so I could download pics from my camera, and will now add a few extras of the helicopter flight.
One of the things I didn’t mention last post was that they built a, for wont of a better word, dyke around the towns of Grindavik as well as Blue Lagoon, in hopes that the 10-12 foot wall of lava wouldn’t inundate these areas. I think that 3 houses were lost in Grindavik, but they still have the town evacuated.
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