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...nightclubs packed with platinum-haired babes and hearty Nordic men, its unspoiled natural wonders and, not least, the low-priced winter deals offered by Icelandair, which enjoys a monopoly on air service to the 40,000-sq.-mi. North Atlantic island. Off-season round trips from the U.S. to Reykjavik can be had for as little as $250, and two-day package tours for under...
Many tourists who come for the cheap fares--a lot of them students and budget travelers who first used Reykjavik as a stopover on flights to Europe--get hooked on the place and become regulars. "I've been here five times," says Karin Ciescik, 45, a New York insurance broker. "I'm a polar buff. I just love the cold." Jeff Warren, managing director of Britain's Windrush Management, chose Iceland for a company holiday. Why? "If we went to Tenerife, we'd just hang around on the beach and drink, mon, so we decided to branch out," says this...
...those in their 20s and 30s, the biggest draw is the weekend night life. With more than 60 clubs packed into central Reykjavik, the drinking, dancing and nuzzling go on past 6 a.m. "The winters are long and hard here, and people get depressed, so we let it all hang out on the weekend," says Birgir Orn Steinarsson, 25, lead singer for an up-and-coming Icelandic rock group called Maus. Most revelers go from club to club in a giant pub crawl that can jam Reykjavik's narrow streets with up to 5,000 drunken kids every Friday...
Aside from the club scene and first-rate restaurants like Laekjarbrekka, with its renowned game menu featuring wild reindeer, puffin and gannet, Reykjavik (pop. 170,000) does not exactly offer world-class attractions. Its main shopping street has more Chinese restaurants than chic boutiques, and everything is expensive (a beer in a club costs about $7). "We are not a country that offers high-class tourism," admits Oddny Oladottir of the Iceland Tourist Board. "But for people interested in nature and geology, you can see a lot of things in a small area...
...Reagan who famously proposed a missile shield, and even more famously refused to barter it away at the Reykjavik summit, an event many historians consider the turning point in the cold war. That marked the beginning of the Soviets' definitive realization that they were going to lose the arms race to the U.S.--and that neither threats nor cajoling could dissuade the U.S. from running...