Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site aluxe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!aluxz!aluxe!2141smh From: 2141smh@aluxe.UUCP (henning) Newsgroups: net.travel Subject: Re: Iceland/Greenland recommendations? Message-ID: <186@aluxe.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 21:27:25 EDT Article-I.D.: aluxe.186 Posted: Thu Jun 14 21:27:25 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 01:57:28 EDT References: <316@nbs-amrf.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA Lines: 19 **** **** From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA aluxe!2141smh First, if you want to get off the beaten track in Iceland, all you have to do is go about 2 miles outside Reykjavik. There are no highway signs. There are almost no paved highways. The weather is cool, wet, and very windy. There is bus service which circles the island. There is a chain of Edda "Hotels" which are at or near ten of the nicest spots. These are actually schools. Since it is impractical for many of the school children to commute to school, many stay in public boarding schools. During the summer months these boarding schools become Hotel Eddas. The Hotel Eddas had no menus and served family style, usually seafood. My wife and I are not seafood eaters, but the meals at the Hotel Eddas were fantastic. We traveled by bus, and the hotels were set up to serve the bus passengers. The bus, or van as it usually was, frequently took off across country with no signs of any vehicle ever going there before to show us one of their trees or sea lions. Their trees are about 10 feet tall and not very often seen. Take lots of money. Everything is expensive unless you get a package from Icelandic Airlines. Then you start with at least a 20% discount off. The language is an old Viking tongue similar to Danish.