Tuesday, 12 June 2012
The Blue Lagoon is a really popular tourist destination. It was a thermal bath about 30 km away from the international airport in Keflavik. It was a huge thermal pool with various beauty services which for obvious reasons did not interest me. Therefore it was a bit commercialised and pricy. It differed to the one in Myvatn by mixing seawater with hot thermal water from the geothermal powerplant. The Myvatn Nature Baths were egg smelling volcanic hot water. The smell was possibly straight from the butt-hole of the Earth. Personally, I preferred the one in Myvatn simply for the budget left for beer. The Blue Lagoon can let you charge to a “tab”. Story about these tabs were never going to end well.
There are probably cheaper ways to enjoy a cool continental lager (undisclosed fee). The experience to sip beer while in what was basically a giant volcanic hot tub before noon was worth it. This “holiday” was potentially overdone by 4 flights and 4 days of driving all within 1 week and in less than 24 hours I will be back to the office. That was a sobering thought. I was “chilled”. Like Iceland was really cool and I felt relaxed and so on. At the airport, I bought the biggest pack of liquorice I could afford with the remaining cash. Liquorice was apparently a Scandinavia thing. The Hong Kong part of me never understood liquorice, but my colleagues did.
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