Saturday, 10 December 2022

We're off to Iceland

Goodbye Sydney!

This was our first overseas trip together as a family of 5 and everyone was excited. Destination...Iceland. 34 hours of flight and transit stood between us and our destination. It was hard to know how much time we needed at the various airports. All we could do was hope for the best. Fortunately Sydney airport immigration and security was smooth and fast. Immigration at Frankfurt was efficient taking less than 10 minutes (we wasted time getting lost and wandering around but that's a different story...) and it took us less than 15 minutes from exiting the plane in Reykjavik to getting into our transfer. We had a minor glitch in Frankfurt waiting for an hour for our plane to be de-iced and for our luggage to be loaded but otherwise the journey was relatively smooth and our luggage made it. Wahoo!!

A few random thoughts and observations...

  • The Lufthansa flight attendant's look of horror when he discovered that we would knowingly turn down a cheese platter in lieu of sleep was gold
  • What was with the boarding and disembarkng in sub-zero temperatures!?
If you would prefer to follow Mal's musings (and a condensed version of our daily adventures), follow along on FindPenguin 

Our first plane from Sydney to Singapore

The older 2 have decided to vlog...watch this space

Happy to do his own thing

Reconnecting with old friends! What a coincidence to be on the same flight!

No business seats for kids 😂

Singapore to Frankfurt

Roaming Frankfurt airport

Our last plane - Frankfurt to Reykjavik

First views of Iceland

Sun beginning to set on arrival at Reykjavik 3:20pm...

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