Our flight home was at 3:30pm so we were taking the bus to the airport at 12:30pm so we really only had a few hours in the morning to kill. We slept in a bit then showered, packed and headed to breakfast with our bags.
For breakfast we went to Tiu Droppar. This was the wine bar that I tried to go to the night before but it closes at 9pm or 10pm I guess? Regardless their breakfast was really good and it was a really cute and cozy place. We chilled out for a bit and set out for the bus station. We decided to walk but slowly make our way there since we hadn't checked out many of the cool stores on the main street. Once we turned off the main street there were lots of cute houses to see. It was only about a 15 minute walk so it wasn't bad at all. We would have taken a cab but we never actually saw one which I thought was odd.
Below are some street art pics from Reykjavik. We saw some of it on our walk to the bus station but I'll just group them all together here. I would say the street art rivaled what we saw in Berlin. I had no idea it was so popular in Reykjavik.
When we checked in we were given seats in row 5 which I thought was nice since on the way there we were in row 32 and it took FOREVER to get off the plane. I didn't realize until we were on the plane though that first few rows with WOW are seats with more room (and significantly more expensive) it was really nice getting these for free!
Anyway we basically walked through security and it took no time at all. I have no idea why they tell you to get to the airport 2 hours early since I'm sure an hour would have been enough. We shopped a bit at the duty free store and tried some samples of the different Icelandic liqueurs. I got a rhubarb liqueur and Brandon got Brennivan which seems to be everywhere. Then we got food for the plane and sat around and waited! They don't open the US passport control until about 30-45 minutes before the flight so we couldn't even get to the departure gate. Once that's open people basically just wait in a line to bet their boarding pass scanned, then you get on a bus to the plane which is out in the middle of nowhere. They are still doing construction on this portion of KEF so I imagine eventually when the gate is done the plane will be right there.
The flight back felt long and annoying but I'm sure that's just because it's the end of vacation. Our larger seats and leg room were pretty great though I doubt I'd pay more for them. Coming back into the US through customs I have Global Entry so I answered the duty free question "yes" because I thought you had to say yes if you bought any alcohol from duty free. I got a big huge STOP AT BAGGAGE CONTROL on my Global Entry slip but the CBP Officer was nice enough to explain to me that you only have to declare more than $800 of duty free alcohol. Now I know! Other than that Global Entry rules and I recommend it for everyone.
That's it for Iceland! We definitely want to go back and rent a car and drive around a bit. I'd like to go whale watching possibly up north out of Husavik.
We don't have anymore trips planned until the Galapagos in January. We'll see if anything comes up before then!
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