So this installment of the Game Room blog is less about EVE Online and its fanfest--developers showed off the game and announced plans to --and more about what I saw and did on this year's trip to Reykjavík and beyond. If you're an EVE Online player, maybe this will inspire you to take the trip next autumn.

Getting to Iceland

Flying to Iceland is a simple affair--Icelandair is the national airline, and it offers direct flights from several North American cities including my home city of Boston. It's a relatively short flight--a little less than five hours flying west to east, which is less time than it would take me to get to Los Angeles. Recently Icelandair upgraded its air fleet with improved touch-screen in-flight entertainment systems in the seatbacks, so I didn't need to rely on my iPod's cache of classic movies to get me through the flight. I was able to play some games, watch some episodes of the Simpsons and even burned through part of a James Bond movie before we landed.

Flights land in Keflavík, which is about an hour's drive southwest of Reykjavík. Keflavík offers a large, comfortable and modern airport filled with duty free shops and connecting flights that bring passengers between North America and much of northern Europe.

The kronur and the dollar