YT and EPI have an ephiphany
At the breakfast table:
YT: [engrossed in Fréttablaðið] ... Crikey, Simon Cowell makes 400,000 pounds an hour.
EPI: ... Yeah, and the guy's in a perpetual bad mood.
There is silence as both ponder the significance of this.
[...]
[...]
YT: Are we doing something wrong?
YEAH, SO WHO THE HELL NEEDS MALLORCA ANYWAY?
With the drastic drop in the rate of the Icelandic krona over the past few weeks, almost all the travel agencies have jacked up their prices by 30% completely without warning. Meaning that if you booked a holiday in, say, January, and planned to pay for it, say, ISK 75,000, and paid, oh, say, 10,000 as a down payment, you'd now have to fork over a 30% higher price on the remainder that you would have had to do at the time of booking. Yep. Hard luck, m'son. Seems there's a clause in the fine print that allows them to do this. The curious thing is, though, that it doesn't work the other way around, i.e. when the krona goes up, holiday prices don't tend to go down. For some reason.
But we don't care heheh because we've have paid for our holiday IN FULL and we can therefore afford to thumb our noses in the general direction of any travel agency we see. And anyway, this weekend we've had temps the likes of which you'd get in southern Europe... well at least when you're in direct sunlight... and when you're sheltered from the cold Arctic wind. Today was beeautiful - EPI and I went and hung out on the banks of the Laugardalslaug swimming pool, also known as the pool where the tourists refuse to get naked and where potmen blow their noses into the water. However, I swear that it was close to 30°C where we were lying, or at least 25°C. It was just like being next to the swimming pool at Vila Petra, which is one of the most superexcellent apartment hotels in the world and which I would most highly recommend if you happen to be travelling to Portugal. But I digress. Highs of 18°C today [in normal locations, i.e. where there was cold Arctic wind] and it's currently 9°C, sun came up at 04.40 [daybreak at 03.22] and went down at 22.11.
YT: [engrossed in Fréttablaðið] ... Crikey, Simon Cowell makes 400,000 pounds an hour.
EPI: ... Yeah, and the guy's in a perpetual bad mood.
There is silence as both ponder the significance of this.
[...]
[...]
YT: Are we doing something wrong?
YEAH, SO WHO THE HELL NEEDS MALLORCA ANYWAY?
With the drastic drop in the rate of the Icelandic krona over the past few weeks, almost all the travel agencies have jacked up their prices by 30% completely without warning. Meaning that if you booked a holiday in, say, January, and planned to pay for it, say, ISK 75,000, and paid, oh, say, 10,000 as a down payment, you'd now have to fork over a 30% higher price on the remainder that you would have had to do at the time of booking. Yep. Hard luck, m'son. Seems there's a clause in the fine print that allows them to do this. The curious thing is, though, that it doesn't work the other way around, i.e. when the krona goes up, holiday prices don't tend to go down. For some reason.
But we don't care heheh because we've have paid for our holiday IN FULL and we can therefore afford to thumb our noses in the general direction of any travel agency we see. And anyway, this weekend we've had temps the likes of which you'd get in southern Europe... well at least when you're in direct sunlight... and when you're sheltered from the cold Arctic wind. Today was beeautiful - EPI and I went and hung out on the banks of the Laugardalslaug swimming pool, also known as the pool where the tourists refuse to get naked and where potmen blow their noses into the water. However, I swear that it was close to 30°C where we were lying, or at least 25°C. It was just like being next to the swimming pool at Vila Petra, which is one of the most superexcellent apartment hotels in the world and which I would most highly recommend if you happen to be travelling to Portugal. But I digress. Highs of 18°C today [in normal locations, i.e. where there was cold Arctic wind] and it's currently 9°C, sun came up at 04.40 [daybreak at 03.22] and went down at 22.11.
posted by Alda at 11:54 PM
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