Across Iceland

The Norröna docked at Seyðisfjörður this morning (09:00 UTC). It turns out that the bus that gets you over to Egilsstaðir Airport (EGS) picks people up at the ferry port. I saw nothing on the Smyril Lines website or anything else I researched, so I had been working on the assumption that they would need to make their way to the bus stop around 850 m away across town, and that there were only the two buses per day. Because of this, I had booked that latest of the three flights between Egilsstaðir and Reykjavik City. Had I know that they could get straight over to the airport, I could have booked the mid-day flight and saved Lisa and Chris many hours of hanging around the airport.

I thought that the tickets I had booked for them allowed same-day changes for a relatively small fee (ISK 4000, or about USD 30, per person), but when Chris asked, they told him that it would cost $400 per person, and at that price, they sat it out.

The flight across the island is only about an hour long. Reykjavik City (RKV) is only 1-2 km from downtown, as opposed to Keflavik (KEF), where the long-haul flights call, which is 49 km away. Thus it was only a short taxi ride before Lisa could check back in to the City Center Hotel.

They'll be there for three nights before flying back to the USA.