Thanks for posting this, Leslie! Guess we'll have to start planning, as well, since we'll be staying in Reykjavik for another night following disembarkation.

Question about the currency!? Should we get any of their krona? Or do they want Euros now? I read this on Wikipedia:

In October 2008, the effects of the 2007/08 global financial crisis brought about a collapse of the Icelandic banking sector. The value of the króna plummeted, and on 7 October 2008 the Icelandic Central Bank attempted to peg the króna at 131 against the euro. This peg was abandoned the next day. The króna later fell to 340 against the euro before trade in the currency was suspended (by comparison, the rate at the start of 2008 was about 90 krónur to the euro). After a period of tentative, very low-volume international trading in the króna, activity had been expected to pick up again throughout November 2008, albeit still with low liquidity, as Iceland secured an IMF loan. However as of January 2009 the krona was still not being traded regularly, with the ECB reference rate being set only intermittently, the last time on December 3, 2008 at 290 ISK per euro. One senior Icelandic official has stated that due to the crisis "the krona is dead. We need a new currency. The only serious option is the euro."

I imagine we'll use credit cards for most of our purchases, but we've learned it's always a good idea to have cash on hand when traveling...so which currency to take?


Kristin

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