Started out easily enough. We found a little coffee shop/book store and got our caffeine fix for the day.
Very nice vegetarian restaurant for lunch...
And then the big event of the day, The Blue Lagoon.
Another tour bus, full to the brim, and we were off. It was a very cold and wet day. Not the perfect day for a swim... but we were looking forward to it nonetheless.
The landscape is otherworldly outside of the city. At points it truly seemed we were on the moon. There was the road... and on both sides nothing but rocks and broken land for as far as the eyes can see. Suddenly, through the rocks there appeared the most ethereal fluorescent blue water. We were close.
Cold, icy rain hit us the second we got off the bus. Made a mad run down the long path to the front door... and from there into our bathing suits. Not usual for a cold icy day.
The lagoon is amazing.
It was an interesting mix. In the pictures you see a beautiful blue sky... and the strange blue of the water as well. That wasn't reality for us. We had killer winds and icy rain... and the strange blue of the water. It was fantastic... but our faces were very cold. At least until we applied the natural silica mud masks to our faces. That gave us a fairly good shield.
We spent the afternoon swimming in the water. Relaxing in the building itself. Then again swimming in the water. It was very hard to get ourselves back out through the cold into the water once we had gotten out. But it was well worth it, the water was hotter... the winds less. Close to the surface the water was 39°. It was best floating right on the surface!
We managed to make it out of the Blue Lagoon just as the bus was about to leave... So a mad dash ensued with the both of us and just as the bus was about to pull away, we hopped on.
It was perfect... relaxing... and our skin glowed afterward.
We got back to town just in time to head off for another fine meal of lobster soup. Sooooo good.
Then it was time to move on. Our bus to the airport left at 4:30 the next morning, and we were off on the next leg of our journey: Norway!
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