This is the Blue Lagoon. Basically an outdoor swimming pool in a natural lava-flow setting, heated by the nearby geothermal power station. We went there twice!
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Andrew may look relaxed, but the radioactive water is slowly dissolving his body. (It really is that colour!)
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We both had fantastic "floating" massages. It was hard not to fall asleep afterwards.
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This reindeer was at the otherwise-pretty-empty Reykjavik Zoo. There were a hundred times as many small children as there were zoo animals.
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The buildings of Reykjavik had multicoloured, corregated iron roofs. It was like a cross between toy-town and barn-land.
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We were impressed by this cool viking-boat sculpture on the Reykjavik shoreline.
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This is a statue of the guy who discovered America - Eiriksson - about 500 years before Columbus.
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This is the majestic vista across the historic Thingvellir site - where the first modern parliament met, a thousand years ago. They didn't realise that it was were the North American and European continental plates were tearing apart. Well, you'd never know from looking at it.
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Another shot of Thingvellir. Certainly there is a little more majesty here than in the current place Icelandic parliament meets, which bears a startling resemblance to a local library office.
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An eruption of the Strokkur geyser in the Geysir park. The word comes from here, which is lucky as it's one of the few Icelandic words that you can pronounce.
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The "golden" Gullfoss waterfall, one of the biggest in Europe, and certainly the west's biggest waterfall without safety barriers.
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