Icelandair

I got some bad news from Joel, my travel agent, about Icelandair. To my total surprise, they don't fly out of Baltimore Washington International Airport anymore. Crap! They only fly out of Boston, JFK, Minneapolis and Orlando. JFK would be the closest airport for me and that would cost me over $300 to fly there to make a connecting flight with them. In my opinion, it wouldn't be worth it. So, I'm stuck with over 28,000 of their frequent flier points. I suppose I could exchange them for something at Points.com but, you don't tend to get a good deal doing that. I'm going to have think about this and figure out what I'm going to do. It bites that they left Baltimore.

Iceland Hard Rock Cafe

I emailed Hard Rock Cafe's headquarters today to find out what happened to the Hard Rock Cafe in Reykjavik, Iceland. If you had a t-shirt from there, you had some bragging rights as not everyone goes there. To my delight, they quickly replied. They stated that the Reykjavik cafe was a franchise cafe. The franchise owners decided to close it in May 2005. I suspect they had a real problem with costs. Things are very expensive in Iceland. Because of that, a number of the menu items would've been very pricey and a turn-off to those visiting Iceland. I can understand how that is considering I paid $67 for a large beer, order of onion rings and a 10 ounce steak dinner in Bergen, Norway. Prices like that don't encourage business. Still, I'm saddened they closed it. It was neat getting a t-shirt from there.