After the busy day yesterday, Darlene and I decided to stay home and veg out a bit. Dan and Katy went off in the car for a 90-minute drive and 3 km walk to see an old plane which crashed on the beach here and which is still there, mouldering away. Didn't appeal to us—at least, not as much as a lazy day and a sleep. Darlene took a short walk, I worked on this blog. And we both, yes, slept. Good first half of the day.
As I say, it was a lazy day. I read the newspapers, did the blog, read some of my book, ate, slept, and went for a quick walk through the town.
Hverager∂i is a small town, and seems to be pretty comfortable in most ways. The houses here, though, are almost all single-story, outside-finished with either stucco or with corrugated metal (really). And they keep the lights on a lot of the time. As well, this is an area with thermal springs, even to the point of having a geothermal park in the middle of town. Here, there are what they call "hot pots"—really bubbling springs through the mud of the ground. There is also a restaurant which claims to do the cooking using this as a heat source. For a small fee, they will give you an egg in a small net bag and you can boil it in the hot pot.
The thermal energy is quite abundant, we gather. They have an Olympic-size outdoor swimming pool, open all year and heated entirely by the thermal springs. We never made it there, but I walked by it and it looked magnificent.
So back to the place we were in for these three days. It seems to be in a retirement community, and my guess is that they rent it out when the actual owners are on vacation. It was well-furnished and very cosy. The only problem was that the second bedroom was small. Katy and Dan took that one, with our thanks, but they had trouble sleeping because the bed and the room were both smaller than they liked.
About six in the evening, Dan and Katy arrived home. They said that they had not, in the end, gone on the walk to the plane: the rain was hard enough that they couldn't see, and the wind almost blew them over. So they cut their losses and visited another few waterfalls instead, on the way back to the B&B. We were glad they made it home all right, and hadn't taken too many chances. (Meanwhile, we had had quite variable weather, with some rain, at times heavy; then sun for up to an hour, then cloud and wind and spitting rain.)
We had a great supper and too much wine, Watched a bit of TV and talked a lot. Then to bed.
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Location:Lækjarbrún,Hveragerði,Iceland
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