Geo: 64.1353, -21.8952Today was Golden Circle bus trip day and it actually was very good. Typical tourist bus but with a good guide and driver. The first stop was Fridheimar tomato greenhouses where they pick one tonne of tomatoes each day. They use local hot water to produce electricity and heat the greenhouses - the equivalent to a town of 3,000 people. Plants grow to 9m and the tomatoes make great soup. They also had Icelandic horses (but we didn't taste them).Next was the Geysir thermal area. Geysir is the name of the original Geysir there that all others are named after. It doesn't do anything these days and, quite frankly, NZ beats this site hands down, Strokkur erupted regularly though and the views were pretty good.In fact, the landscape is stunning - big, vast, barren
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