August 25, 2010

Hveragerdi

Ok guys, i told you a lot about my camp, but i forgot to mention city where we lived. And i have to say that it was my big mistake. This city is situated in 40 km from capital, only 3000 people live here. Not only, for Iceland 3000 is a very big number) Well, this city is called capital of hot springs and it is true: here everywhere you can see steam that comes from the ground. But it's not all, also there is a waterfall in city. I always had a dream to swim under the waterfall and i finally implemented it hear: it was crazy, because temperature hear is not higher that +20, but we were lucky cause this waterfall is a continue of the hot river that i told you about, so water there was warm))
Also there is an ice cream factory that makes an amazing ice cream. Omg i'll miss this icecream so bad! We had an excursion to this factory, it was boring but it wasn't a waste of time. Guess why? Right, because we had a free ice cream as a souvenir))
All icelanders love different festivals, that's why we saw a flower festival here. There wasn't nothing special about it except free ice cream, but i have to warn you. For the festval this factory prepares unusual sorts of ice cream, that' s why you can taste on this festival ice cream with oreo, honey or - if you're unlucky like i'm - with fish!
I fell that i forgot about something important. Oh, yeah. There are a lot of green houses in this city and locals call their city "Icelandic Amsterdam", just guess why =)
And i can't forget about people who live here. Maybe all people in Iceland are so kind, friendly and hospitable, i don't know, but i can say for sure if you come to Hveragerdi in a couple of hours you'll find hear a lot of new friends!