We decided to travel to Reykjavik for a couple reasons: first, many of our friends have visited and said that it’s beautiful. Also, living in Seattle as we do, flying to Europe is quite an endeavor. We decided to break it up (7 hour flight to Reykjavik, 2 day stopover, then 7 hours travel to Madrid, Spain) in order to get acclimatized and not feel like we live in an airplane 🙂
The flight from Seattle to Iceland is fairly long but it’s also eastbound across eight time zones, so that’s a lot of time. The plan was to sleep most of the flight, but we couldn’t resist the free media Icelandair provides its passengers. The movies on offer were all somehow Iceland-themed, and both of us having never seen it before, Mark chose the Pixar animated film Frozen for us as a matter of basic research. Much later after he passed out, Yana made a better choice by mixing a playlist from a wide range of music, from Bjork and Kate Bush to Sister Sledge and Outkast. But following that and after a brief wait to go through customs at last we were officially in Iceland!
