A few words about WOW.
Read the small print. Iceland has taxes as high as Belgium.
Being an island, food and restaurants are about 2 times more expensive than EU.
Booze is 3 times more expensive than EU.
Crews have special allowances for DF, but... if you lapse and get caught, the fine is minimum 200 EUR.
One alcohol store per town/village.
Normal supermarkets sell only mild beer - 2.5/3.0 %.
Winter starts mid August ends mid June.
BIKF is a beloved test-flight airport for x-wind.
Also all NATO AFs love to exercise and transit through there. Imagine just falling asleep after a night duty and a ****** Typhoon screams past your window!
Yeah. Past your window. Because the so called "accommodation" is a refurbished ex-officers quarters in the former USAF base!
Same refurbished place has vent lids that clatter like mad in any wind above 25 knots - a light breeze by Iceland standards where 70 knots winds are quite common. Have a good night!
And WOW operation is one of the most difficult I have ever had in my career.
Winter time closest alternate is Glasgow, about 2 hours away...
Have a look, by the way, at your main alternate BIAR...
Iceland/WOW is not a place for faint hearted people or hour builders!
Only good pass-time is fishing.
Cod and mackerel are abundant and great fun.
Any local woman can drink you to death. If you survive, you stand a slim chance of a ****. And they don't like us foreigners. Because we stand out like sore thumb. And when we are gone, they still need to find someone to keep them warm for 10 months...
You can buy me some virtual beers...
