- Keflavic International Airport to Reykjavik – pickup car rental from SADCARS
- Check-in at Airbnb in Reykjavik
- Explore downtown Reykjavik and Laugavegur – shopping street in Reykjavik
After 3 time zones and 26 long hours, we finally arrived! We got picked up by our car rental guy who happens to be a Pinoy and Visayan named Sugar Ray! He told us how he and his family moved to Iceland, and how happy he is to be living there.
We were greeted by our first rainbow on our way to the car garage, and we’ve seen 3 others on our way to Reykjavik.
The car rental – SADCars – has “empty to empty” policy, so we received our car with an empty tank, so we had to go gas up right away. And this is where our adventure officially begins! To start off, we were greeted by an automatic gas station, where you just swipe/tap your card and fill the car by yourself – G’s nemesis. Funnily, none our cards would work, and it was so windy I could see the lamp post swaying! G who was only wearing his fleece jacket, I could tell, was freezing. After trying about 89 of our credit cards (nyek nyek), we decided to try one of our debit cards, the one without the “pay wave” capability, and poof! It worked!
We arrived at the house and had a hard time putting in the keys because my hands were shaking – it was so windy and cold and we weren’t wearing warm clothes yet. We had the whole house to ourselves, and it was big! Don’t you just love Airbnb?
The place was walking distance to Laugavegur – the shopping street in Reykjavik. Nothing was cheap! After walking the whole strip, we decided to take a turn to see the Hallgrímskirkja church from afar – well it wasn’t too far, just a few blocks away. It was beautiful!
After our very long journey, we thought we deserved a nice dinner. We weren’t ready yet to try Icelandic stuff, so we chose a french restaurant, but still ordered Icelandic fish- salmon for G and cod for me. We both got beers, wine was expensive. The food was good, and we realized it’s our first date in Europe, yiheee! We were both dozing off though after the soup and a few gulps of beer. Hey, you can’t blame us, we’ve been awake for almost 2 days! (Actually, I slept well in the plane, I always do. I even miss the meals sometimes because I just always want to sleep some more)
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