Iceland (A 72 hour layover in the high north)
Iceland Reykjavik: 64.1N / 21.9W Arrived: 0630, September 14th via Icelandair red eye flight from BWI Departed: 0730, September 17th via Icelandair to Munich Icelandair offered the lowest fare from the East Coast to Munich, Germany when we shopped for flights in late spring. Like several other national airlines, they offer the option to do a "free" long layover in Iceland as part of the travel. Of course, nothing during the layover is free but the air travel essentially becomes two different travel legs for the price of one. If you have the time and want to spend a few days taking in the major sights, why not? The cheapest fare also means the least convenient times so we ended up departing BWI at 9:00 pm on a Tuesday evening and took a 5 hour flight, landing at 2:15 am East Coast time or 6:15 am Iceland time. Iceland's latitude should put it in the GMT-1 timezone but in 1968 Iceland permanently went to GMT-0 to be better synch'd with the r...