{"id":6615,"date":"2012-11-06T22:38:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T22:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=6615"},"modified":"2012-11-06T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T22:47:08","slug":"breaking-the-bus-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/breaking-the-bus-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Bus Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I decided to try something ‘new’. \u00a0Yes, I took a bus<\/a> for the first time in probably a decade (if not more)!<\/p>\n

My goal was to get from our home to Finnur’s workplace, and to collect the car for some errands. \u00a0I was running a little late, so I didn’t fancy a 90 minute walk (according to Google Maps), so instead I took a bus some of the way there, and walked the rest (40 minutes). \u00a0The whole trip still took me almost an hour.<\/p>\n

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I’ve contemplated taking the bus before, but never acted on it. My main problem: No change at home to pay for the exact fare. Today’s solution: I opened Anna’s piggy bank and borrowed some money. When I boarded the bus though, I remembered that ‘back in the old days’ the drivers would sometimes sell discounted 10-trip tickets. \u00a0Luckily for me, this one had exactly one of those to sell, and I had the cash to buy. Thus Anna’s money could be safely returned.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A modern-ish structure where I got off the bus (at Hamraborg), that houses lots of culture-ish things. Those blue-ish tiles (copper?) were all the rage some ten years ago or so for fancy new structures. I can’t say I was ever a big fan.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Walking along the coastline towards the Reykjavik University<\/a>, where Finnur shares an office with a workmate.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is the ‘Warning – Dangerous Path’-path that lies pretty close to the ocean, and can probably get a bit scary when the weather is rough. Further to the right lies the ‘proper’ path, which is paved.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I arrived late enough to miss lunch with Finnur, so after saying a quick hello, I went to the restaurant Nauth\u00f3ll<\/a> that lives behind Reykjavik University<\/a>, and ate lunch there. The place seemed to be very popular with ‘the ladies that lunch’, but since I was solo, I just read stuff on my phone.<\/p><\/div>\n

After lunch, I headed off to run my errands, before collecting Finnur again at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

As is customary on Tuesdays, I ended the day by taking Bjarki to his swim-school session, which is held in the indoor-pool of our local swimming pool. \u00a0Much to my surprise the outdoor pool was much busier than usual, even though the temperature was 3C\/37F, and it was dark, raining and blowing a cool breeze! \u00a0Not only was there traffic in the three remaining swimming lanes (the formal sports-club swim practice eats up three lanes around 5 pm), but the hot tubs were well populated, and kids were playing chasing games which involved climbing the two-story high unenclosed stairwell up to the slide entrance!<\/p>\n

I did have a lovely swim though, and an equally lovely water-jet massage, so maybe the people at the pool weren’t so crazy after all? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I decided to try something ‘new’. \u00a0Yes, I took a bus for the first time in probably a decade (if not more)! My goal was to get from our home to Finnur’s workplace, and to collect the car for some errands. \u00a0I was running a little late, so I didn’t fancy a 90 minuteRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6615"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6626,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions\/6626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}