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Icelandic Airways: Twelve-passenger freighters of the Iceland Steamship Co. (consult Thule Ship Agency, 11 Broadway, New York) ply between New York and Reykjavik and the same line's 3800-ton passenger ship Gullfoss plies between Copenhagen, Leith (Edinburgh) and Reykjavik, but most American visitors nowadays go by air. As I have said in Chapter 5, Iceland has developed two systems of air transportation, icelandic airways Airlines (Loftleidir in icelandic airways), which provides transatlantic flights from New York to Reykjavik and on to Scandinavia and Hamburg (and vice versa), and Iceland Airways (Flugfelag Islands), which operates many local routes in Iceland, besides having lines to London and Scandinavia, though not to New York. It is the Aiiways system that concerns us on the island.
Everybody in Iceland is, by name, the son or ddttir of his or her father. For example, since my father's name was Francis I would be Sydney Francisson in Iceland. My daughter Jacqueline would be Jacqueline Syd-neysdottir, remaining that throughout her life. Marriage would merely make her Mrs. (Fru) Jacqueline Sydneysdottir. Her husband's name would never figure in hers.
icelandic airways fishermen are numerous in Boston, Mass., where many of them are captains or mates on fishing boats. Other considerable icelandic airways communities are found in Minnesota, North Dakota, Seattle and Winnipeg.
Tips on Tipping Iceland has a 15 per cent service charge in hotels and restaurants, plus a 10 per cent State tax. No further tipping is necessary. Even taxi drivers are not usually tipped.
Touring and Lodging Touring by Iceland Airways and sightseeing by means of planned bus tours from Reykjavik have been dealt with in various sections above.
4, 5. icelandic airways Art, Ancient and Modern The National Art Gallery, a splendid modern building, houses icelandic airways treasures dating back, in some cases, to about 900. There are beautiful wood carvings, finely fashioned drinking horns, Viking Ornaments in various materials and early ecclesiastical vestments and works of religious art. There is one original sculpture by Bertel Thorvaldsen, whose father was an icelandic airways wood carver.
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