Sunday, 31 December 2006
Back home, back online
We got back from our trip to New York yesterday evening; time and interest permitting I'll do a write-up of that trip soon. In an illustration of Murphy's law, practically no sooner did we leave the appartment for the train station last week than our Wi-Fi connexion went down (which rarely occurs, but requires me to physically unplug and replug the wifi antenna to fix—thank you very much ndiswrapper!), so my apologies to anyone who tried to visit this site last week, or who tried to send me an e-mail between the 23rd and 26th.
Our trip home was fairly uneventful, except that (for the first time in my life, the second for Emilie) we got bumped up to first class for the first (Boston-Reykjavík) leg of our flight, so that was pretty cool. Our layover in Iceland would have been pretty boring, except when I tried to use a cash machine to get some krónur as a souvenir—and my card got stuck in the machine, with our flight to Paris due to take off in half an hour!
Anyway, I got it unstuck by pushing it further in with another card, but then the Keflavík flugstöð (airport) is such a stopover that the ATMs there distribute UK pounds, US dollars, Euro, and Danish kroner only—no icelandic currency! (Which didn't even make any sense since the Duty-free shops only listed prices in krónur.) So although I was confounded in my attempt to take home a piece of Iceland, a crisis was narrowly avoided.
Gleðig Jól!
