Beyond the Guide - Five tips for your visit to Iceland

With his strange lunar landscape barren and extremely civilized and cosmopolitan culture, Iceland is one of the most charming and attractive in Europe. Most people who visit here by the people who signed the culture and weather.

Five tips for an enjoyable stay - Before you take the plunge and book your vacation Here are five tips to make your time should be more fun:

Eisbrecher - Iceland torqueLow-cost airline Iceland Express flies from London Stansted and Gatwick and many other European cities. If you are flying from the UK and six in the parking lot in planning Gatwick is worth booking in advance of a company like The Essential Travel - offering up to 60% on list price of parking at Gatwick.

Danger: Hot! - Iceland is a geothermal hot spot is located and the islanders use it very often to your advantagegeothermal power plants provide most of the island of electricity and hot water pumped is preheated in the pipeline already. This disadvantage of this is to the uninitiated that the water is very close to boiling point when it comes from the tap - a warm 80 degrees, in fact. Be careful when you turn on the shower - and do not mind the smell of rotten eggs weak, it is only natural sulfur water.

When dining out, ignore the Guide - Most of the leaders whoCover the food isolates the famous list of "old school", such as restaurants or Tvier Fisk Einar Ben. These are good for the experience of Icelandic specialties such as puffins and whales, but eating there during the week or off season you can Easily is the only table in the restaurant. If you want something a bit 'more lives to go on the road and see where the locals - the restaurants are in downtown Reykjavik and funky cosmopolitan bistro with modern European cuisine in the heartStage instead of rotten shark.

Do not faint when producing Get the Bill! - Eating, drinking, shopping and much of this is rather more expensive in Iceland - not surprising when you consider that most of the fresh must be imported. However, unless you choose to dine in expensive restaurants in the capital, you can expect to pay slightly more than New York prices - about $ 80 for a three-course meal with wine would be typical. Pubs are also a bit 'more expensive than beerare paid to come in about eight dollars for a beer - not far from the typical 6-7 dollars, you get the United States. Dancing is a different story - you could easily pay about $ 20 for a beer, but is common in Iceland, to do their drinking at home before going.

They grow bananas in Iceland - Oh, yes, despite the Arctic Circle, the Icelandic geothermal Springs used smart enough to heat greenhouses and large - to grow bananas! Finally, one last tip that stands out for its beautifulmuch of each objective: Ensure adequate travel insurance. Specialists such as AA Insurance is a cover, if you intend to Going Bananas in Iceland, or you're just there to admire the scenery.