Weekend photos: Report from Iceland (Reykjavik)
I may go back to editing the photos from Montana before I continue with the Icelandic reports, but I do have some shots from Reykjavik, where I spent the first two days of my recent Iceland vacation (feels like a very long time ago, but it was, in fact, Sept. 4 & 5). I arrived at Keflavik airport at 7 a.m. on the 4th, after a lot of flying and no sleeping. Just before landing we popped out of the clouds and I got my first look at Iceland. The airport is about an hour from Reykjavik by direct shuttle bus; less when there's no traffic, a little longer as we got caught in the morning commute. I walked from the bus station to my hotel, where I was able to store my bags and head out for a tour of the city. One of my first stops was the tower of Hallgrimskirkja. The Lutheran church was built over 40 years, from 1945 to 1986, and the exterior mimics the columns of basalt that are seen throughout the country. For a fee (one soon realizes in Iceland that *everything* is fo...