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Travel

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)

8. If you have extra time in Iceland, consider taking a tour out into the countryside

Reply to alcina (Reply #6)

Mon Feb 9, 2015, 10:27 PM

Feb 2015

All the hotels can arrange all sorts of sightseeing and activity tours that take you into the country's weird landscapes.

For London, I suggest the Rick Steves guidebook. It's a huge, sprawling city, and it can be intimidating, despite the fact that everyone speaks English. However, this guidebook tells you exactly which bus or tube line to take to get to where you want to go, when the different attractions are open, which ones are tourist traps, whether there is an admission charge, etc. (The art museums are all free, which is good, because everything else is expensive.)