Edda Iki Laugarvatn

... they only need to drill around 50m under the ground, so Im not sure where all the environmental controversy is coming from. (update- I guess I was mistaken, its more like 2000m!) Or maybe theres more to the story than I learned in a super quick tour.. All the same, it was cool to see that such ideas have been successfully executed.

The other cool thing was going to Þingvellir NP to see where the earth is basically splitting apart. Most of the ridge is underwater, but this ...

... until I got comfortable. So they start swimming under me and I start following on the surface like a parade balloon. There are a couple of places where they must come up close to the surface to get over some rocks. I bob along after them.

The water is very, very clear. I never see a fish although I am told that there are fish in that lake and the gift shop was selling fishing flies. The rocks are all covered with algae or moss or slimy something plus a lot of stuff that looked like ...

... changing the internal plumbing structures, but there is another one called Strokkur that is pretty good. It blows up every 10 minutes or so. That means that you get to relive the thrill many times before your tour bus sets off again for the next site.
Oddly enough, we didn't seem to take a single picture of Stokkur. Hmmm, wonder why that was.
At the bottom of this page there seem to be links to other people's blogs related to this same ...

... time photographing.

After the walk we were both ready for a cup of coffee so we headed to the park visitor center. However, it was soooo busy! So we started towards the road when I saw this strawbale building under construction.

I introduced myself to the builder and explained that I had built a strawbale house in Colorado so I had to stop in a see what he was doing. He said this was the ...

... it is really good and a lesson we could learn from in the UK. 

After we finished at the power plant we went to a geysir which goes off every 7 mins spurting hot water into the sky. I have seen one before in New Zealand in Rotorua and it was pretty similar with its geothermal area and bubbling hot springs with steam rising from it. During the whole trip I was really tired and all I wanted to do was sleep, I am also fed up of having the same conversations ...

We just had our first local lamb and they gave us a super dessert b/c we're on our honeymoon. There were greenhouse grown strawberries in this yummy dessert. The owner of the guesthouse served us and said most of the produce comes from local greenhouses (what an ingenious idea, why doesn't everyone in Canada do that?) We drove past tons of greenhouses today, Senica was so intrigued. They are heated by the country's thermal ...

... we found out that there'd been a booking error and they didn't have any cars available! Luckily, the concierge at the nearby hotel was able to call and arrange for us to rent a car from another company (Budget). So, we ended up getting a pretty late start, but we got our car after all! As soon as we got ahold of the keys, we drove straight out of town. With the late start, we decided that a route that's known as "The Golden Circle" would be our best bet. The ...

... and super duper thermal sleeping bag, NOT expecting the hottest weather for about eighteen years or something...) We never did find out what that alarm was, but we reckoned it was some kind of burglar alarm that had been left on. Once everyone was out of the building, Ruth rang the girl who was in charge of sorting us all out, and said we'd evacuated the building... receiving the obviously expected response... "Why have you evacuated the building though?!" Soz ...

... hot springs)




Geysir, Iceland cecilia74

... road got worse the higher and closer it got to the Sklafellsjokull glacier. It was full of pot holes, had only one lane and oodles of blind curves, there were incredible drop-offs that had me constantly envisioning my death, and did I mention that it was drizzling so the road was a bit slippery? Not a rosy set of driving conditions, my friends. I was grinding my teeth and wishing I knew how to say a "Hail Mary" the whole way. I never ...