Back from Iceland
Okay, so it wasn't much of a blog from Iceland. We're back. We have lots of dirty laundry, Eric threw up on the plane, and we haven't unpacked yet, but we're glad to be home.
Iceland was beautiful. I decided it was like Yellowstone -- kind of demands to be done a second time, so you take all the good knowledge you've developed and use it the next time. We spent three days in Reykjavik, and mostly went to the pool and the national museum and various show-related events.
The pools in Iceland are the bomb. They're outdoors and heated with geothermal water, and you can go from hot pots (aka hot tubs) to giant, warm swimming pools. It's just like every other metropolitan swimming complex, except the water is terrifically warm and you're outside on a chilly day. When we went up north to Akureyri (sp?), we went to a spa/thermal pool that was a milky turquoise blue and then to their municipal pool, and on both days it was snowing all day. It was extremely cool to hang out at the pool when it was snowing.
If I can figure it out, I'll post some pix. Bless! (Icelandic for goodbye).
Iceland was beautiful. I decided it was like Yellowstone -- kind of demands to be done a second time, so you take all the good knowledge you've developed and use it the next time. We spent three days in Reykjavik, and mostly went to the pool and the national museum and various show-related events.
The pools in Iceland are the bomb. They're outdoors and heated with geothermal water, and you can go from hot pots (aka hot tubs) to giant, warm swimming pools. It's just like every other metropolitan swimming complex, except the water is terrifically warm and you're outside on a chilly day. When we went up north to Akureyri (sp?), we went to a spa/thermal pool that was a milky turquoise blue and then to their municipal pool, and on both days it was snowing all day. It was extremely cool to hang out at the pool when it was snowing.
If I can figure it out, I'll post some pix. Bless! (Icelandic for goodbye).
2 Comments:
At 7:48 AM, Gretchen said…
Sounds like you had a great time. So...How was the food? Being a Stierholz this is an important question.
At 7:04 AM, Riz said…
It was okay, not great. We couldn't afford the good stuff (fresh fish, grilled lamb), so we ate a lot of junk food. We did have a breakfast buffet w/good food. But even some of that good food was too salty -- the marinated herring especially. But the yogurt and the salmon were great.
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