To Akureyri

The Icelandic language is spoken with a certain cadence, which some Icelanders also use when speaking English. Combined with the bored and rushed delivery of something recited several times a day, every day, the safety announcements on board the plane are not 100% clear to me.

Still, knowing where everything is won't be of much help if we need to land somewhere other than a runway. Here there are no neatly divided plots of cultivated prairie fields. No English cottages, row upon row. Just a fire-blasted landscape, with ice on top.

Lava Fields

Craggy Terrain

Langjökull

Approaching Akureyri

Canyon to the right of them,
Canyon to the left of them,
A quick bank and dive,
Then straight down the Eyjafjörður
And onto the runway,
Flew the F-50.

Landing in Akureyri