{"id":2315,"date":"2025-03-30T16:51:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T23:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2025-03-30T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T23:51:32","slug":"iceland-day-0-reykjavik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2025\/03\/30\/iceland-day-0-reykjavik\/index.php","title":{"rendered":"Iceland day 0 – Reykjavik"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For Lucy’s spring break, we decided to go to Iceland for 9 days. For some strange reason, I’ve never really been interested in going to Iceland, but then recently got super excited about the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They call it “the land of fire and ice” (not to be confused with “the song of ice and fire” with the dragons, zombies, and incest etc) because of all the volcanic activity and frozen glaciers. It really sounds like a mysterious and incredible spot. From what I’ve read, there are two Icelands: Iceland in the winter with it’s brutal storms, snow, darkness, and freezing weather and Iceland in the summer where everything is lush and green and the days stretch for hours. We’re going in the shoulder season in between the two, so it’s kind of hard to predict what we’re really gonna get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work has been bonkers this week, so i was frantically working right up until i started packing. I literally started packing at 4PM\u2026 for my 6:30PM flight. Our flight wasn’t super eventful, just the usual screaming babies, weird smells, and trouble sleeping. We had a brief stopover in London where I ate the worst potstickers I have ever encountered in my entire life. This is impressive because I have eaten a ton of potstickers in my day, and they have more or less always at the very least been “decent”, whereas these were absolute bland garbage that tasted like they were wrapped in crumbly cardboard. It was almost impressive how awful they were. Anyways, we survived our layover, and the next flight. Upon entering Iceland, immigration started interrogating me about my child and asking if i have a note from her other parent that shows they know she is crossing international borders. Now, I probably looked like shit and haggard after barely sleeping the last many hours, but I didn’t realize I looked like a child abductor. After a bunch of back and forth, and me showing them a text message I had sent Jamie about us arriving in Iceland, the grumpy agent finally let us in with an annoyed look that seemed to say she still thought i may or may not be a kidnapper. Crisis averted! Woo! We’re officially in Iceland!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We went to get our rental car, which they were out of, so we got upgraded to a fancy ass luxury Volvo. This thing has so many buttons and features, i can barely figure out how to use it, but it is dope! It even has a steering wheel that heats up\u2026 who knew these kind of things even existed?! So we finally step outside of the airport and\u2026 it’s snowing! Wow, we totally didn’t expect that at all! It was a really amazing and magical way to start off our trip!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We drove to Reykjavik and had our first meal. Food was good\u2026 lamb and arctic char. Lucy tried creme brulee for the first time. We briefly considered exploring town, but we were pretty beat, so just crashed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For Lucy’s spring break, we decided to go to Iceland for 9 days. For some strange reason, I’ve never really been interested in going to Iceland, but then recently got super excited about the place. They call it “the land of fire and ice” (not to be confused with “the song of ice and fire” … Continue reading “Iceland day 0 – Reykjavik”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iceland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}