We’re a long way from California. That’s the main reason that I’ve never been – who has the patience to spend 12 hours on board a little tin can in the sky?
But you know, there is an alternative. You don’t have to fly direct – and no, we’re not talking about spending hours trapped in some dire airport living off dubiously flavoured Pringles.
Iceland Air flies from London to San Francisco via Reykjavik. It’s just three hours from Heathrow to the Icelandic capital and then another eight hours to the west coast – which is way more manageable.
You’d be foolish to hop straight on your long-haul flight though, because Iceland is completely magical. I went, expecting to be counting down the hours until I could be in the Californian sunshine and found that actually, a speedy pre-holiday trip around glaciers and hot springs was the perfect beginning to holiday – particularly if you’re the sort of active person who needs to… Read the full story
from Metro https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/10/why-anyone-planning-a-trip-to-san-francisco-needs-stopover-in-iceland-first-7654834/
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