Iceland stop on the way to Minnesota

Icelandair aren’t bad at all…

We broke our transatlantic journey with 4 hours in Iceland. Part of the deal with Icelandair was a bus trip from the airport to a local attraction – the blue lagoon. If I’d been organised enough I would have packed our swimsuits in our carry-on luggage, and we could have bobbed around in the lagoon, like all the other tourists. But I wasn’t, so we didn’t.

Iceland was very strange to look at -at least the part we saw. The terrain around the blue lagoon is volcanic, and we had to wade through what looked like the hardened embers of a giant fire. It seemed like the perfect place to film a sci fi movie set in space.

We arrived in Saint Paul last night, and spent our first evening in Minnesota eating pizza and catching up with my brother in law Tony. Tony took me to a large grocery store today and I went round trying to work out what different things actually were. I am determined not to eat like the typical Brit abroad (i.e faux British food). However the challenge of eating American rather confused me -so we settled on buying the ingredients of a stop gap international meal – stir fried chicken.

Question of the day: What do the Americans call the ground floor of a building?

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