Pure Icelandic water

At evenings when I go to bed and close my eyes I see camper cars, and tonight Nicolas spoke out loud while asleep in a very serious manner  - "Yes, yes. A car!" I woke up hearing that and couldn't hold my laugh. Anyway the first full working week has passed and we are having days off. I have to note, that days off in a small town in Iceland are so much different from days off in Riga. First, you do not have hangover. Second, you do not have much idea what to do.

We went for a local swimming pool. It seems that Icelanders are crazy about swimming pools, as soon as they hear we are for the first time in Iceland an immediate question is - "Have you been to a swimming pool already? You definately have to attend one!" So we did. And it was great. Despite the moderate temperature biggest part of the swimming pool is located outside under the blue grey sky. Water here is heated up by geothermal energy wich means that swimming pools are enviromentally friendly and cheap (probably the only thing that is cheaper here than in Latvia). We enjoyed all of it - a big pool, slide, steam baths and several hot tubes with water of different temperatures. The one of aprox. 40°C makes you look red like a lobster.

But not only geothermal pools seems to be a big thing in Iceland. It seems that Icelandic water is a brand itself, or at least Icelanders try hard to make it one. On the bottle of any drink produced in Iceland you will not find such an ingredient as water. No, it's always written - pure Icelandic water! Even on beer and on Coca Cola, which has quite a nice size here.