As soon as I stepped into the airport terminal, 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 flock, whispering or talking informally. What is eye-opening is that there are few chairs like rare animals in the waiting room, and many passengers who have no place to sit stand and naturally line up. In addition, the ticket gate is as close as conjoined twins, so that the walls that appear prematurely crisscross, blocking the already small airport waiting hall. Look at the past carefully. There are more excesses. Whether it is the waiting hall or the promenade in the airport, it is actually wrapped by several windows and walls 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 you make a film about the Japanese Gendarmerie Command and come to Reykjavik International Airport in Iceland, you will definitely not let the audience down."
The five of us went through the customs, took our luggage and hurried out in fear. After all, I am a foreigner, afraid that "I will be a unruly person in a barren land"!
As soon as I entered Iceland late at night, I was greeted by 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 of Iceland airport are to minimize the loss of heat energy to resist the cold winter.
According to the map, it is at least 50 kilometers from the airport to our central hotel in Reykjavik. 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, either by taking an expensive taxi (at least $40 per person if carpooling) or by choosing a tourist bus with a relatively cheap fare. For working-class people like us, we certainly choose the latter. However, 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. Because of my shabby appearance and scrawny figure, I give the impression that outsiders are dismissive. In other words, selling me is not worth a few dollars.
Just as I took out my wallet to buy a ticket, the careful grass came running with a smile. She took out a piece of paper from 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 said inexplicably, "What's a cheap way?"
The grass twisted its mouth like a piece of glass jade and said slowly, "I have done research for a long time." We can take bus No.55, and the fare is ten dollars per person. " What a surprise! Heroes come out at the critical moment. Xiaocao's ingenious subtotal actually saved each of us more than 20 dollars.
After listening to the grass, I gasped. Hang up! Almost made a big mistake. Twenty dollars is a month's living expenses for me, which at least means that I can have a happy meal, but at least it means a month's living expenses!
The bus stopped and went on in the dark. After driving for more than forty minutes, a city with dazzling lights suddenly appeared in front of me. Needless to say, it must be Reykjavik, Iceland. I put my face on the glass window and looked out. I saw the roadside brightly lit, and the large and small buildings were brightly lit everywhere. People can't help sighing. On the surface, this small city with a population of100000 has surpassed 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 they saw Shanghai, one of the best in China. Later, after understanding, I learned that Iceland has sufficient energy, and the electricity produced by these two resources, hydropower and geothermal, can't be used up by several Iceland. This is really a blessed person who doesn't have to be busy, and no happy person runs heartbroken. Aren't you born in Iceland, and the nights are long in winter? God gave Iceland inexhaustible energy, and let its residents use lights instead of the sun.
After getting off the bus, we took the streets to catch a mile mountain road. When we dragged our tired bodies and arrived at the hotel, it was already nine in the morning.
I was in a dilemma when I learned that we went too early and there were still two hours to check into the hotel. What shall we do? Don't just wait. The still clever grass has an idea. She sighed and said casually, "We might as well leave our luggage in the hotel and go to the morning market in Iceland." After listening to the grass, I smiled in my heart and thought, "We are sleepy step by step, how can we go to the morning market in a hurry?"
It is said that there is no night in summer in Iceland, but in 1 1 month, the daytime in Iceland is only seven hours, from 10 in the morning to 5: 00 in the afternoon. When we walked out of the hotel, it was only a little after nine o'clock, and the sky appeared fish belly color. Obviously, it must be sunny today. Thinking about this, I lost 20% of my sleepiness. When I looked over, I felt a shock in my heart, and I lost half of my sleepiness unconsciously. It makes people laugh. The 73-meter-high Reykjavik Cathedral is near our hotel. Proud of me, I resisted fatigue and drowsiness, opened my eyes wide, dumped a big belly at the leader and giggled. When grass saw the time was ripe, it began to sell melons and made a splash. She narrowed her eyes into a line and said smugly, "In order to make you have a good time, I specially found a hotel in the city center, near the cathedral." After I looked around excitedly, I gave a thumbs-up in front of me and praised loudly: "Gao!" Tall! Really high! " Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, is actually a mountain city. This cathedral built in the 1960s stands on the top of the mountain. That's downtown. Downtown!
The grass shook her hair demurely and shook her head when she wanted to say something. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly realized and whispered, "I am not the high commander you said!" " "
We visited the spacious and magnificent church first, and then, each of us spent ten yuan 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 anyone to sign in on the way to the top of the church. It's up to me whether to buy a ticket or not. This good atmosphere of honesty made me have an indelible impression on Iceland for the first time.
I'm looking forward to climbing to the highest point of the church. Wow, this is not a city. It's like a giant flower show. Small lace buildings with two or three floors are built on the mountain and arranged in an orderly way. Among them, there are triangles, pentagons, big bellies, round heads on shoulders, Gothic and Romanesque. In addition, each small building is dyed with a unique color, colorful and colorful. How do you look like a smiling bud 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 those colorful small buildings actually had clear latitude and longitude. The street between the small buildings is not wide, but it is neat and orderly. The road where the car runs in the middle is paved with a rectangular Shi Zhuan, or the cement floor is dark gray, and white pebbles the size of soybeans are added to the cement to prevent slipping in winter. However, both sides of the road are full of dark gray Shi Zhuan, with green moss in the crevices, ready to jump out and play with pedestrians. If there is no vivid billboard reminder in Iceland, it will really make people mistakenly think that they are stopping or roaming in urban communities in France or Italy!
It is conceivable that every small building next door to 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, while poor people wrote attractive menus in red and white, and pasted them on big wooden boards several feet high and half a person high. 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 people feel a simple and flamboyant elegance from the bones.
However, the most memorable thing about Reykjavik is the young people born and raised in Iceland. Almost all are wavy hair, full of cheerful eyes and gentle. Especially the Icelandic girls walking in the street, wearing fashionable clothes and carrying designer bags. Almost all of them have tall bodies, clean and clear faces, towering breasts and round hips twisted under a thin waist. Although the young man is tall and short, he has broad shoulders and a slim waist. The most distinctive feature is their faces, which are almost crescent-shaped when viewed 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 almost all slightly thicker lips are surrounded by an inch-long thick brown beard. In this way, compared with American aunts or uncles, Icelandic girls and boys are really eye-catching and dazzle passers-by. To this end, my family leaders kept whispering praise to me. I was wide awake at that time, staring at the beautiful girl passing by like a thief. Actually, that doesn't mean I have a playboy. Does everyone have a love of beauty? Besides, walking on the street 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. Nobody said that? The real beauty of the human body is not in movies and TV, but in ordinary people.
However, when we walk into a cafe or restaurant, we know that what is hidden under the gorgeous appearance of the building is a sword that kills people without blinking an eye. In other words, all the goods in Iceland, including food, are prohibitively expensive. A small cup of ordinary coffee with a maximum 100 ml costs four to five dollars, a croissant costs four dollars, and an ordinary hamburger costs at least twelve dollars. Most food in Iceland needs to be imported, so it is very expensive. Is it true? 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 the same brand and quantity of yogurt in the United States. This really makes tourists swallow their broken teeth! 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 stay in have free breakfast, which includes meat, bread, milk and eggs, as well as Icelandic specialties, such as several kinds of particularly delicious vinegar fish or salted fish. So I had a hard breakfast, and in the evening, everyone spent another 50 yuan to eat a big meal, cook two meals together, and spend a day in food and clothing.
What's more, there is a capable grass around us, so it's hard for you to suffer. That day, when we were walking tired and hungry in the downtown area of the mountain city, the grass mysteriously gave me and the team leader strange eyes, then made a gesture to the dock and said quietly in a mysterious tone, "Come with me! I will take you to eat cheap and delicious lobster soup.
"Soon, under the guidance of the grass, we walked into a small restaurant near the pier, which looked like a farmhouse in China. It is crowded with local residents who speak Icelandic. They are 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 nine-inch-long toast and a small plate is only a dozen dollars, which is at least 40% cheaper than the restaurants on both sides of the street.
This small restaurant also has fish skewers made of fresh cod, red fish or cod. There are at least four or two fish in each string, which are now bought and roasted at a price of ten yuan. Because at six o'clock in the evening, we will take a bath in the open-air blue lagoon (actually a huge outdoor hot spring) 40 kilometers away, and we will leave the hotel at four o'clock in the afternoon. In order to avoid hunger, the leader made a decisive decision. Besides 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 eat! Eat until your stomach bulges and burps everywhere. After leaving the restaurant, the three of us have been whispering and enjoying the delicious lobster soup and delicious fish. I must tell you the truth. The restaurants on both sides of the street were originally opened for tourists 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 Xiaocao has more money-saving tips in diet, and people come prepared. Xiaocao whispered to my leader that in order to make this trip to Iceland "cheap and delicious", she specially brought instant noodles made in North Korea that had not been oiled, as well as biscuits, beef jerky and other snacks. Look at the grass. He 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 the grass. Next time I travel abroad, I must be more delicate than the grass, so that not only the lice born on my body have double eyelids, but 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 wisely chose the democratic system, so far, under the leadership of elected leaders, 320,000 Icelandic people have built Iceland into one of the richest countries in the world. At present, Iceland's unemployment rate is low, industrial agriculture is booming, urban and rural management is orderly, 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 went to Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, to swim in the downtown area and take a bath in the world-famous open-air hot springs. Especially the latter, it makes us realize what is the most rare happiness in life and what is the most brilliant surprise. You think, in the ice and snow, the whole person is washed away by warm spring water, and the hot springs are almost endless, surrounded by grotesque volcanic lava stones. This wild, magnificent, primitive, seemingly alien beauty, how can it not make people have indescribable surprises, the excitement of Tao Xin Taolong, 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 article is limited in space, I won't say much here.
The next morning, when I woke up from a hot spring dream, the climax of my trip to Iceland came like a storm. Under the arrangement of the travel company, we started a fascinating, mysterious and shocking three-day tour of southern Iceland.