Day 2
- Woken at 8:00 by bathroom use and a short laze in bed promptly brings us to breakfast for Kellogs and slightly sweetened soya milk. Everyone gets ready for the day’s walk and we are out by 9:28.
- Arrive in Hveragerdi (k-vera-ger-thee) [see map marker for location] after a 20 minute drive and naturally it begins to rain and will continue to do so on and off until we get home that evening when the sun is bright and perfect for photos.
- A bit of a normie gravel trail walk, but 10 minutes in we got to see our first geiser: a clay-like liquid bubbling away at over 100 degrees celsius. The pit is about 3 or 4 meters in diameter and reeks of Sulphur which smells like gone off egg if you didn’t know - note how the tourist adverts don’t mention how the moment you land in Iceland you are welcomed by the smell of rotten egg in the air and of course you have to drink and shower in water that has a hint of egg to it because it has been filtered from sulphur rich ground which is being fired up. Harmless of course, but you will wrinkle your nose for a while. But don’t worry, you will be reminded of the stench as soon as you stand downwind of a geiser!
- Lots of tourists down this route but it was still a sight to see. The open and refreshing mountains of Iceland are reminiscent of the Scottish highlands - just lacking the peat bog and trees. Plenty of American and French tourists but everyone was friendly. I don’t know why I was so surprised - because it is such common knowledge - but the water is actually so hot. But not just from the source but way down the river (which is where people take the pleasure of bathing). It wasn’t quite blue lagoon but interesting all the same.
- Tonight we fire up the hot tub and have cocktails IN the bathtub. Cocktails. In the bathtub. Crazy.
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