Iceland
RantWoman has many things she needs / wants to distract herself from, so...Iceland it is.
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Lagoons, lagoons, lagoons: all the ways Iceland offers to lightly steam oneself in geothermally heated pools sound glorious for achy bodies. RantWoman has childhood memories of an annual winter time Rant family trip to a hot springs pool in the mountains of CO. Swimming in the warm water was especially delicious when snow was falling. So all the ways to soak oneself sound wonderful--until on thinks of dry skin. RantWoman would have to look for some local option to avoid turning into a very flaky and shriveled prune.
As for doing the Blue Lagoon first thing when one gets off the plane, probably not. RantWoman has enough experience with international travel and jet lag to think more about falling asleep in a bed and saving the swim for another time, perhaps on the way out of town, though that leaves one with wet swimwear in one's luggage. Put a pin in that as a problem to solve.
Yes, Yes, cash free, prepay for mobile service, and the right apps for weather.
RantWoman loves the idea of the Fly bus from the airport. RantWoman will opine separately about driving: if travelling in the wintertime, either make sure your driver is comfortable driving in bad weather, snow and ice, or sign up for tours. RantWoman will look for more info about tours or options to hire a local driver.
Camp sites sound great if one is feeling hardy but if one, say, needs a CPAP machine, one will need either some kind of solar battery or an option one can plug into. RantWoman has no idea whether one could get a portable solar collector with the needed capacity. Never mind whether one could count on enough sunlight to fully charge before bedtime.
Camper vans! Camper vans! Fun to know these exist.
Puffins and whale watching? Puffins' high-contrast plumage just sounds like fun. RantWoman is ambivalent about even trying whale watching. RantWoman can see whales just fine up close on videos. RantWoman occasionally dines with friends at the home of one person with a view of whales swimming by in the Puget Sound. RantWoman takes others' word for it that the whales are even there.
Light and dark: high summer is exhilarating. Short daylight periods in the winter are good for...sleeping! RantWoman once spent a lot of a winter trip to Russia just sleeping. Between the jet lag and most of the surrounding conversation being in Russian sign language, not one of RantWoman's zones of even bare minimal fluency, RantWoman found it surprisingly easy just to sleep. Iceland might be a long way to travel just to catch up on sleep, but add plenty of time lounging in lagoons and RantWoman can imagine not being the only person on the planet who could imagine a winter napping tour.
PS Who can pass up year-round fresh tomatoes?
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