City guide
Reykjavik drinks late. Icelanders generally do not start drinking until 10pm or 11pm, the bars run until 4am or 5am, and the scene compresses into a small downtown that you can walk in twenty minutes. There is no metro. The whole drinking city is a fifteen minute radius.
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