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Grái Kötturinn (Reykjavik, Iceland)

We took the red eye to Keyflavik (it’s hard not to, actually), which had us arriving all bleary-eyed at a time which was either 3:30 or 7:30, depending on which clock you are looking at. Attempting to get on local time, we wandering into downtown Reykjavik to find some coffee and breakfast, looking for a nice, solid breakfast to get us going. We ended up finding a couple of good options (Prikið, in particular, looks like a place I need to check out on another visit), but we ended up finding exactly what we needed at the Grái Kötturinn (Gray Cat) in a basement just off of the harbor area…

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Lava Restaurant (Blue Lagoon, Grindavík, Iceland)

On our most recent trip to visit my brother and sister-in-law in London, we decided to finally try the Icelandair route, which involves two flight, one from BOS to KEF, and another shorter hop from KEF to LHR. What’s intriguing about this approach is that Icelandair and Keflavik exist primarily on transit passengers (as opposed to people making Iceland their primary destination), and they make it very convenient for you to take an extended layover (nine hours in our case) and there are a number of cheap shuttle buses that will take you around SW Iceland, into Reykjavik, or off to soak in Iceland’s Blue Lagoon Spa.

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