Earlier in May, I was watching Crossing Lines on Netflix, one of those crime solving series, where the members of the team are from various European countries, and their investigations take them to all over the continent. I know it's TV and not real, but man, did they manage to make their lives look so interesting and sophisticated, and I turned to Andrew and said (accusingly): "Why don't we ever do anything cool like that? (the sophisticated European living thing I mean, not the crime solving thing obviously) Let's go somewhere interesting and exotic, something different." Andrew, as usual, was easy-going and readily agreed with me. I was still taking classes for my Master's degree at that time, so were pretty much restricted to traveling during my Fall reading week.
Unfortunately most of Europe was out, since Andrew had already visited most countries and I had this silly notion that we should discover a new place together (hah right. turns out, it really doesn't matter). Then we started looking at Iceland, which was becoming a very popular travel destination with the Iceland Air promotions. What really sold me were the ice caves, where glacier ice melting in the summer creates these caves that can only be explored in the winter (after the water drains / freezes away). Early November was the start of the ice caving season, and we were contemplating our itinerary options for the week as the ice caves require a rented car (but neither one of us had a license) or a tour operator (expensive). Then Iceland Air had a sale on flights to Paris, with a free stop-over in Iceland and we were sold. We decided on 4 nights in Iceland (including a 2 night ice cave tour), and 3 nights in Paris. Stay tuned for the actual trip report!
