Day Three - May 29, 2013
Reykjavik, Iceland
Daily Didactic
The day started understandably late. We rose around 10:00ish and headed out to find a place to turn some of those extra kroners back to something we could spend off island. We headed for a TI (tourist information) we had seen our street the day before. Rubbernecking walked us right past it and then eventual the entire length of Laugevegar again. We found another TI at the end, which sent us to a bank, where we learned that you cannot exchange kroner to foreign currency without a passport and evidence you will be departing soon. We assume this is part of that ugly Icelandic economic collapse a few years ago. We walked back home and eyed a bank about 200 feet from our door. Armed with our passports and our itinerary, we quickly recovered from our ATM enthusiasm and headed for the noon bus to the Blue Lagoon. Infinitely better than the 1980 movie of the same name, this lagoon is a manmade byproduct of the world's first renewable methanol plant. Artificial or not, we do not care. We spent three hours gliding from the huge heated pool, to the steam rooms, to the saunas, and back to the big pool. We even smeared a bunch of mud on our faces, because the Icelandic folks said it was good for us. It was marvelous. It was not for the weak of financial heart mind you, between FlyBus tickets and entry fees we could have bought three bags of food for Oscar (and Oscar eats well). Not a great picture day, like any where much of it is spent in water. Google "Reykjavik Blue Lagoon" for tourism shots. We FlyBussed it back to Reykjavik, spent down the last of our kroners at a nice Thai place next door, and called it a night. Our flight to St. Petersburg (by way of Frankfurt and Berlin) begins with walking out the door at 4:00am tomorrow.
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