The day has come to end this adventure. After a quick breakfast in the room, I checked out, leaving my bags in the care of the hotel. I wandered downtown in the light, window shopping and watching the birds – Redwings- sample red berries on the trees.
Then I collected my bags and walked the kilometre and a half to the bus depot. Unfortunately this may have been a poor calculation- while the sidewalks were bare downtown, it wasn’t the case in the neighbourhoods, where the slush had frozen to ice. Some had salted, but most did not. I proceeded carefully and ended up making it without mishap beyond a very slow pace.
A brief wait at the bus terminal, and I boarded a flybus back to the airport. There, I got to exercise the perks of the premium seating I had bid on – the lounge. I tried curried herring and brined herring, Icelandic cheese, and had pasta salad, egg salad, samosas and fruit. It was delicious.
Boarding was an ordeal, as it was a remote gate, but the flight was lovely – chasing the sunset. A poetic closing to a wonderful trip.
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