Just back from a fish dinner in downtown Reykjavik which we will depart in the morning, as we begin to circumnavigate Island (as they call Iceland here). Fish was good and the beer okay. We had a lovely day, picking up our hire car this morning and battling reflexes to switch on windscreen wipers instead of indicators, turn onto the wrong side of roads and all the other automatic things when you haven´t driven on the wrong side for years. But we made it, and can only get better. Reading the books, I was aware about Iceland being in the middle of shifting tectonic plates and hence very volcanic, but even a day here really emphasises that. For a start, most of the hot water is heated by geothermal power, so just turn on the hot
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