Le Fanu said:
I suppose so! I just assume everything goes by air!
Here, you specify Priority or Regular – I suppose Priority usually means they send by air, but if air traffic is closed I still don't think they will let it sit and wait in a warehouse somewhere until it opens – they'll probably send the quickest way that's available. Shouldn't take more than three days, I guess. It's not _that_ far by train.
But this is really just me guessing wildly, without having a clue...
nisaba said:
How does the sky look? How does it smell? I'm really interested in the whole phenomenon.
Where I am you can't see it at all. No smell, nothing. On Iceland, it's different though. Smoke heavy like fog, and many inches of ash on the ground in some parts.
I've been told that some people in Norway (which is closer to Iceland) could notice some smell when the cloud was thickest, but apparently not much. They've had the airspace open for a long time now over Scandinavia, but even when it was closed I couldn't notice anything except the lack of air traffic. The ash is so thin and drifting so high up in the atmosphere… but if there is a small possibility that it might destroy the airplane engines, then better not take the risk, eh?
But we're starting to get some really nice red sunsets, real jewel red – proof there's lots of particles and dust up there in the air to the west.