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Last night passed without further interest, I slept well - nothing to moan about.

The company here is just as I remember it - although web analytics isn't going to just 'happen' for them. They have to realise that the need to use WA as a tool and that they will need to drive its use.

I didn't bring a coat with me, but it's damned cold out there - bright sunshine but still about minus one, worse when the wind blows. I just went to look for a coat, but didn't see anything that I liked, other than the thought of having one to match the one I brought back for Linus the last time I was here.

My drink is nice.

Reykjavik again

I find myself in Iceland again - arriving at the same late hour as last time, except this time it's properly dark. This is a dumb excuse to try writing an entry for my site using my 'phone. So far it seems to work.

The Flybus, as it's called, is a smelly old bus that should eventually take me to my hotel, I costs 1300ISK, which at today's rate is just a bit more than a tenner, slightly cheaper than my thirty-five quid return ticket between Gatwick and Heathrow this afternoon.

The ride out of Keflavik, which was originally a US airbase, is quite smooth, ape far we still have the lights of the airport around us, the smelly coach isn't that full, most people on the flight seemed to be locals, so I would guess that they mostly have better ways home.

Toyota, Subway... Familiar names shine-out from the left, while to our right is nothing but a thousand miles of darkness. I don't think I'm exaggerating.

Here they drive on the right. Not that it matters, the road is empty.

And now it's dark to our left as well. The darkness of another few thousand miles, this time over water. Could be worse, they could have put a drive-through McDonald's out here.

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I forgot to mention, but, you know how when you land at an airport and it smells funny, like Edinburgh airport always smells of cow poo? Well, landing here, it smells slightly of rotten fish. Which is nice. Don't worry, you seem to get used to it very quickly. I wonder if that smell is 'real' in any meaningful sense?

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The coach is warm. Too warm. I know that it's only about 1 degree c out there, but this seems to be over-compensating a little.

All of this road is lit with sodium street lights. I guess it would be a dangerous road, but it seems silly somehow. I can't help but think of all the unlit motorway in the UK. The light of the street lights illuminates just a little of the landscape to either side.

Oooo! Proper lights. Are we nearly there yet?

First drop-off. Two guys that have clearly left a car somewhere odd. Just noticed, although the roads are clear and dry, there is a bunch of snow by the roadside. The odd monochrome light makes it kinda hard to see what's what.

Nesti, KFC, N1, Snogg.

Hotel can't be far now.

Red roadside sign says minus three degrees. Chilly.

Reykjavik

It's been a long while since I've had a chance to sit down and

write anything. I have spend a few weeks working in Bracknell and this week I have been in Iceland.

This terrible URL (to be fixed) http://tinyurl.com/34dlop will take you to an annotated Google map (with extra bits to be added) that shows the highlights of my visit.

Places that I ate :

• Silfur http://www.silfur.is/ has a more 'fusion' menu than their site suggests. Their signature chocolate dessert and anything that has Wassabi ice-cream is a good pick.
• Hereford Steakhouse http://www.hereford.is/ is a generic steakhouse, not quite good enough to feature on my 'all time' best steak list but perfectly alright. Their fish soup starter was good, but the tentacles lurking at the bottom were a little off-putting (despite being very nice).
• Salt
• ...more to follow.

As I'm writing this I realise that I am starting to think in the idiot English that I have found myself speaking all week - despite the fact that most of Iceland seems to speak better English than most of England. Go figure.

p.s. Sorry about the mis-spelling of Reykjavik, I've had character set issues with the RSS feeds and this was the easiest thing to 'fix'.