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Just curious, has anyone traveled to Icleand ?
Just curious, has anyone traveled to Icleand ?
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In summary, Just curious, has anyone traveled to Icleand ?Some people have traveled to Iceland, while others have not.
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land_of_ice said:
It's on my list and a great time to go given their economy. But wait for spring :D
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I am also a big fan...never been there, but I would love to go.
Judging from your user name, are you from Iceland, land_of_ice?
(And yes I know Iceland is not really a land of ice...Greenland is though - an early example of slick marketing
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lisab said:(And yes I know Iceland is not really a land of ice...Greenland is though - an early example of slick marketing
Actually that has been proposed before
but the ref [2] doesn't download to me, so I can't verify.
Anyway, been to Iceland a couple of times, in the late 1980s and early 1990s when we had no air refuel capacity yet and we had to land our F-16s at Kevlavik half way during our ferry flights from the Netherlands to Goose Bay in Labrador for low flying training.
Vague memories about ice, glaciers, large dark and wet gravel plains, missing the vegetation. Not a place of friendly sceneries although there is plenty to see.
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Technically, yes. I traveled from Europe back to the US in 1969. Back then the cheapest flight was on Icelandic Airlilnes because, I was told, they were not a part of IATA which set prices. I had to go to Luxembourgh to board the plane and we stopped in Kevlavik on the way. It was at night and all I saw was the airport. It was mid November and in fact the whole place was covered in snow.
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I've been diverted to Keflavik. Does that count?
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I watched Mighty Ducks II
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Here's an article about Icelandic from Time magazine written about the time that I flew.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909595,00.html"
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I've been to their airport...
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I've been to Iceland on google maps.
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