As soon as I set foot in the waiting hall of the airport, I felt that the space was so narrow that I could hardly breathe. I didn't expect Iceland to be as small as Dalian airport. The narrow lounge corridor is like the corridor of a residential building, where passengers in winter clothes are swarming, whispering or talking informally. What is eye-opening is that there are few chairs in the waiting room like rare animals, and many passengers who have no place to sit stand and stand, so they naturally form a long queue. In addition, the ticket pick-up port is as close as conjoined twins, so that the walls that appear prematurely crisscross and block the already small airport waiting hall. Look closely at the past. There are more excesses. Both the waiting hall and the promenade in the airport are actually wrapped in walls with few windows and as thick as city walls, which makes people feel as if they are walking in a heavily guarded ancient castle. At that time, it suddenly occurred to me: "If a film about the Japanese Gendarmerie Command is made, it will not disappoint the audience if it comes to Reykjavik International Airport in Iceland."
Five of us went through the customs, got our luggage, and hurried out in fear. After all, I am a stranger, for fear that "into the badlands will be a unruly person"!
As soon as I got into the deep night in Iceland, I came face to face with a gloomy cold wind. It took me several cold wars to realize the cleverness and cunning of Icelanders. It turns out that the narrow space and thick walls in Iceland airport are designed to reduce the loss of heat energy as much as possible to resist the cold winter.
According to the map, the distance from the airport to our central hotel in Reykjavík is at least 50 kilometers. I quickly asked the service staff at the front desk of the airport and learned that there are at least two ways to get to Reykjavik, or take an expensive taxi (at least 40 dollars per person if shared), or choose a tourist bus with relatively cheap fares. For working-class people like us, of course, we choose the latter. Nevertheless, a trip to the downtown of Iceland's capital will cost us more than 30 dollars each! Alas! When people go out, they are like cakes and sheep slaughtered by others. Thanks to my shabby appearance and skinny figure, I gave the impression that outsiders were dismissive. That is to say, selling me is not worth a few dollars.
Just as I took out my wallet and prepared to buy a ticket, the budget-conscious Xiao Cao came running with a smile. She dragged a piece of paper out of her pocket and shook it desperately in front of my eyes, saying, "Fish Soul King, don't worry! I have something cheaper. "
My eyes lit up after listening, and I was puzzled and said, "What's a cheap way?"
Xiao Cao twisted his mouth as if he had found a piece of glass jade, and said slowly, "I have done research long ago. We can take bus No.55, and the fare is ten dollars per person." What a surprise! Heroes come out at the critical moment. Xiao Cao's clever subtotal actually saved us more than twenty dollars each.
After hearing Xiao Cao's words, I gasped. It's hanging! Almost made a big mistake. Twenty dollars is a month's living expenses for me, at least it means I can have a big meal happily, but at least it means a month's living expenses!
The bus stopped and went in the dark. After driving for more than forty minutes, a dazzling light city suddenly appeared in front of it. Needless to say, it must be Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. I printed my face on the glass window and looked out. I saw the lights on the roadside, and the buildings of all sizes were brightly lit everywhere. People couldn't help sighing. On the surface, this small city with a population of only 100,000 has surpassed that of a metropolis with a population of several million. In the dark, the brightly-lit posture of that family even started to run in shame when it saw one of the best big Shanghai in China. Later, after learning, I learned that Iceland is full of energy, and the electricity produced by these two large resources, hydropower and geothermal, can't be used up by several Iceland. This is really blessed people don't have to be busy, and those without happiness run heartbroken. Aren't you born in Iceland, and the nights are long in winter? God has given Iceland inexhaustible energy and let its residents replace the sun with lights.
After getting off the bus, we walked the streets and lanes to catch a mile of mountain roads. When we dragged our tired bodies, it was already nine o'clock in the morning when we arrived at our hotel.
I was in a dilemma when I learned that we went too early and there were still two hours before we checked into the hotel. What should we do? Don't just wait. Still smart Xiao Cao has an idea. With a deep sigh of relief, she said casually, "We might as well leave our luggage in the hotel and then visit the morning market in the Icelandic capital." After listening to Xiao Cao's words, I laughed in my heart, thinking, "How can we go shopping in the morning market in a hurry as we are sleepy step by step?"
It is said that there is no night in summer in Iceland, but in November, the daytime in Iceland is only seven hours, from 10 am when the sun rises to 5 pm when the sun sets. When we walked out of the hotel, it was only a little after nine o'clock, and there was a fish belly color in the sky. Obviously, today must be a clear day. Thinking of this, I lost 20% of my sleepiness. When I looked at the past, my heart was shocked and I lost half of my drowsiness unconsciously. It makes people laugh out loud. The 73-meter-high Reykjavik Cathedral is close to our hotel. Proud of me, I resisted the tiredness and drowsiness, opened my eyes wide, and threw a big belly at the leader and giggled. When Xiao Cao saw that the time was ripe, he began to sell melons, and he made a show of himself. She narrowed her eyes into a line and said smugly, "In order to make you have a good time, I deliberately found the hotel in the city center, near the cathedral." After I looked around excitedly, I gave a thumbs-up in front of Xiao Cao and praised him loudly: "Gao! Tall! It is really high! " Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, is actually a mountain city, and this cathedral, which was built in the 1960s, stands on the top of the mountain. That's downtown. Downtown!
Xiao Cao threw his hair in a reserved way and shook his head when he wanted to say something. After a moment of meditation, he suddenly realized and whispered, "I am not the high commander you mentioned!" "
We visited the spacious and magnificent church first, and then, each of us spent ten dollars to buy a ticket to climb the stairs, ready to climb to the top of the church to see the whole mountain city. I didn't expect that no one would check in on the way to the top of the church. It's up to me to buy a ticket or not. This good atmosphere of honesty made me have an indelible good impression on Iceland at the first time.
Climbing to the highest point of the church, I looked forward to it. "Wow" This is not a city. It is simply a giant flower show. The small lace buildings with two to three floors are built according to the mountain and arranged in an orderly manner. Among them, there are triangles, pentagons, big bellies, round heads on shoulders, Gothic styles and Roman styles. In addition, each small building is dyed with unique colors, and it is colorful and colorful. How do you look like a flower bud that smiles in your sleep? It makes people feel uneasy.
When we walked out of the church and had zero-distance contact with the small buildings on both sides of the street, we were surprised to find that the colored small buildings had a clear latitude and longitude. The street between the small buildings is not wide but orderly and clean. The road where cars run in the middle is paved with rectangular Shi Zhuan, or the cement floor is black and gray, and white pebbles the size of soybeans are added to the cement for anti-skid in winter. On both sides of the road, however, there are all black and gray Shi Zhuan, and there are green moss growing in the crevices ready to jump out of the road and play with pedestrians. If there is no vivid billboard reminder in Icelandic characters, it will really make people misunderstand that they are stopping or roaming in the urban community of France or Italy!
It is conceivable that every small building next door in the city center is engaged in business, not restaurants, hotels or cafes, but small supermarkets or various grocery stores. In order to attract customers, the door of each small building is decorated like a big wedding. Rich people put up signs with fluorescent lights, and those with less money wrote attractive menus in red and white and posted them on big wooden boards several feet high and half a person. Every small building has its own characteristics, and it will never be the same. Roof or platform, or triangle; Its color is white, red, blue or green, whatever color you think of, there will be any color. Let a person feel a kind of simple elegance full of publicity in his bones.
However, the most unforgettable thing about Reykjavik is the young people born and raised in Iceland. Almost all of them have wavy hair, full of cheerful eyes and gentle. Especially the Icelandic girls walking in the street, one by one wearing fashionable clothes, carrying brand-name bags. Almost all of them have tall figures, clean and clear faces, towering breasts and round buttocks twisted under a thin waist. Although the young man is tall and short, he has a broad shoulder and a thin waist. The most distinctive feature is their faces, which are almost crescent-shaped from the side, and their tall noses are inserted in them like sailing masts. From the front, the hair of Icelandic boys is mostly brown and yellow, and almost all the slightly thick lips are surrounded by an inch-long thick brown beard. In this way, compared with American aunts or American uncles, Icelandic girls and boys are really eye-catching and dazzle passers-by. To this end, my family leaders kept sending me whispers of praise. At that time, I was completely awake, and my eyes were staring at the beautiful girl passing by like a thief. In fact, this is not enough to show that I have a playboy. Does everyone have a love of beauty? Besides, strolling through the streets in the center of the mountain city is simply witnessing a realistic model contest, and you don't have to spend money to buy tickets. Didn't someone say that? The real beauty of human body is not in movies and TV, but in ordinary people.
However, when we walked into the cafe or restaurant, we realized that what was hidden under the colorful appearance of the building was a sharp sword that killed people without blinking an eye. In other words, all the goods in Iceland, including food, are surprisingly expensive. A small cup of ordinary coffee with a maximum of 100 ml costs four to five dollars, a small croissant costs four dollars, and an ordinary hamburger costs at least twelve dollars. Is it true that most foods in Iceland need to be imported, so they are expensive? I don't think so. Because even Iceland's own products are expensive. For example, buying a bottle of local yogurt in Iceland is at least twice as expensive as buying yogurt of the same brand and quantity in the United States. This really makes tourists swallow their broken teeth into their stomachs! Dumb people eat coptis, and only they know whether it is bitter or not.
Only when we checked into the hotel did we find that the situation was not as serious as we thought. Because all the hotels we stayed in had free breakfast, and breakfast included meat, bread, milk and eggs, as well as Iceland's special foods, such as several kinds of specially delicious vinegar fish or salted fish. So eat a hard breakfast, and each person will spend another fifty dollars to eat a big meal in the evening, and make two meals together, and the day will be spent in food and clothing.
What's more, we have a capable Xiao Cao around us, and it's hard for you to suffer. On that day, when we were tired and hungry when walking in the downtown area of the mountain city, Xiao Cao mysteriously gave me and the leader strange glances respectively, then made a gesture towards the dock and said quietly in a mysterious tone, "Come with me! I'll take you to eat cheap and good lobster soup.
"Before long, under the guidance of XiaoCao, we walked into a small restaurant located beside the pier, which looked like a China farmhouse. It was full of local residents who spoke Icelandic, and they were eagerly drinking lobster soup and eating delicious toast. I hurried forward and looked at the price list. A big bowl of thick lobster soup, plus a toast more than nine inches long and a small dish were just over ten dollars, which was at least 40% cheaper than those sold in restaurants on both sides of the street.
This small restaurant also has fish skewers made of fresh cod, redfish or cusk. Each skewer has at least four taels of fish, which is now bought and roasted, and the price is ten dollars. Because at six o'clock in the evening, we are going to take a bath in the open-air blue lagoon (actually a huge outdoor hot spring) 40 kilometers away, and we are going to leave the hotel at four o'clock in the afternoon. In order to avoid hunger, the leader made a decisive decision. In addition to a big bowl of lobster soup, everyone bought a string of cod and a string of golden red fish. In this way, I, the leader and my daughter have a meal! Eat until the stomach bulges out and burps everywhere. After leaving the restaurant, the three of us kept whispering and admiring the delicious lobster soup and the delicious fish. I have to tell you the truth. The restaurants on both sides of the street were originally opened for people who came to travel from afar. It seems that the descendants of viking are more cunning than foxes in business!
On the way back to the hotel, my leader and I learned that Xiao Cao has more tricks in saving money in eating, and people are prepared. Xiao Cao quietly told my family leader that in order to make this trip to Iceland "cheap and good", she specially brought instant noodles made in Korea that have not been oiled, as well as various snacks such as biscuits and beef jerky. Look at Xiao Cao, who is so clever that even his eyelashes are empty. I sigh! However, on second thought, I can't be discouraged, and those who know shame are brave! I decided to learn from Xiao Cao. The next time I travel abroad, I must be more refined than Xiao Cao, so that not only the lice born on my body have double eyelids, but also I must be tall and heavy.
Although Icelanders are too shrewd in doing business, I still want to praise this country. Because the Icelandic people have wisely chosen the democratic system, so far, under the leadership of democratically elected leaders, 320,000 Icelandic people have built Iceland into one of the richest countries in the world. At present, the unemployment rate in Iceland is low, industrial agriculture is flourishing, urban and rural management is well organized, there is no difference between urban and rural areas, everyone has free education and medical insurance, and people's lives are constantly improving. This is simply a veritable socialism.
On that day, we visited two of the three scenic spots in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, namely, swimming in the downtown area and taking a bath in the world-famous open-air hot springs. Especially the latter, it allows us to appreciate what is the most rare happiness and the most brilliant surprise in life. You think, in the world of ice and snow, the whole person is rushed by warm spring water, and the hot spring is almost endless, surrounded by grotesque volcanic lava stones. How can this wild, magnificent, primitive and seemingly alien beauty not make people produce indescribable surprises, the excitement of Tao Xin Tao Lung and the joy of connecting the body with electricity?
As for the special Ning Lake (Tj? Rnin (also known as Toning Lake) We visited it before we left Iceland. For the first time in my life, I saw so many white swans and gray swans wandering on that small lake. Because the length of the article is limited, I won't say much here.
The next morning, when I woke up from my dream of soaking in hot springs, the highlight of my trip to Iceland came like a storm. Under the arrangement of the travel company, we started a desirable, mysterious and shocking three-day tour of southern Iceland.