We checked in to Iceland’s gorgeous Reykjavik Edition, and found its location in the trendy Old Harbour neighbourhood to be the ideal base from which to explore the city – and beyond I’m exhausted when I board my bus from Keflavík International Airport to Reykjavík, Iceland. The short drive comes on the heels of a gruelling, 20-plus-hour flight from Hong Kong, so it’s understandable that, for a moment, I wonder confusedly whether I’ve been beamed onto an alien landscape. The scenery rolling past is like nothing I’ve ever seen before: all black, rocky lava plains covered with moss and dotted with the occasional house.
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Photo: Handout Reykjavík is simultaneously one of the smallest capitals in Europe and the most populous city in Iceland, with 200,000 of the country’s 380,000 people living there (there’s more than two sheep per human). The consensus among travel bloggers seems to be that the city is quain.
