{"id":25637,"date":"2022-09-28T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=25637"},"modified":"2023-01-19T17:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T22:13:04","slug":"but-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=25637","title":{"rendered":"But Then,"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linda Lou Burton posting from Central Hotels Plaza, Reykjavik, Iceland<\/em> \u2013 It\u2019s dark and cold. We\u2019re tired and hungry. We need to eat. \u201cThere\u2019s no restaurant in the hotel,\u201d we were advised at the front desk. \u201cBut they\u2019re all around, just step outside the door.\u201d Someone blew in off the street just then, zipped and wrapped, mittens and parka; he stopped at the sight of us. \u201cYou\u2019re going to freeze out there!\u201d he said. \u201cYou aren\u2019t dressed for Iceland! How did you get here without a coat?\u201d \u201cWe just left the Equator, and turned north,\u201d we answered. He made a face at us, and next thing, we were all laughing, and exchanging travel routes. He was from Texas, as most of our safari gang had been. He pointed to a spot across the street, not thirty feet from the door of the hotel. \u201cGo there,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s warm.\u201d Truer words were never spoken.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Saeta Svinid, aka Sweet Pig, calls itself an Icelandic Gastropub; they not only had a Sweet Pig out front decked in lacy red stockings, they had a sign enticing you in with a 7-course Tasting Menu consisting of the following:<\/p>\n