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I always found it interesting that Iceland has no indigenous population (like the inuit), prior to Scandinavian and British immigration. Like, what if it's because it is regularly buried in lava or something.
I was there in January the weather was hailing and of course it's Iceland, windy as all get out. Love Iceland yet the Blue Lagoon compared to the govt run bathhouses in Reykjavik (where I socialized & met locals/made friends) was lacking for me.
Overall both to me are must visits and fun i just had a better experience at Reykjavik's govt run bathhouses. My friend i met there just sent me northern light pics from this evening. I didn't get to see them during my nine day visit there last winter. They are elusive.
The people living on that peninsula right now are stressed out in a way most of us have never experienced.
If you've lived through even a tiny earthquake it's much like if you've experienced a solar eclipse: even when short and mild, they elicit an otherworldly body-terror. The people living on that peninsula right now are stressed out in a way most of us have never experienced.
> The Blue Lagoon, a geothermal spa south-west of Reykjavík, announced it would close its doors on Thursday for a week This is temporary, not permanent. Short of the whole thing being swallowed by a lava fissure there's no way they will close Iceland's most famous tourist trap.
Yep. But: the upcoming eruptions could limit or destroy access routes, change geothermal patterns, create other nearby health risks – or even, as you put it, result literall in "the whole thing being swallowed by a lava fissure".
If you've lived through even a tiny earthquake it's much like if you've experienced a solar eclipse: even when short and mild, they elicit an otherworldly body-terror. The people living on that peninsula right now are stressed out in a way most of us have never experienced.
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Were your ancestors there before the immigration the parent post alludes to? Are you a Huldufólk with internet access?
Paraphrasing what I remember from a museum....
"We mostly had sheep. The danish king was hard to work with and always let us down. Every 150-200 years things started looking up, then there was a volcanoes. Some percentage survived on boats, then the majority starved over the winter bc all the sheep had died."
I am sure there are many many more depths, but this struck me as considerably dark history tbh
> The Blue Lagoon, a geothermal spa south-west of Reykjavík, announced it would close its doors on Thursday for a week This is temporary, not permanent. Short of the whole thing being swallowed by a lava fissure there's no way they will close Iceland's most famous tourist trap.
Is there a comparable experience elsewhere (in Iceland or not) that's not overpriced, overcrowded, or out of the way? (a lot to ask I know)
> The Blue Lagoon, a geothermal spa south-west of Reykjavík, announced it would close its doors on Thursday for a week This is temporary, not permanent. Short of the whole thing being swallowed by a lava fissure there's no way they will close Iceland's most famous tourist trap.
I liked my time there, but yes it's a tourist trap. Is there a comparable experience elsewhere (in Iceland or not) that's not overpriced, overcrowded, or out of the way? (a lot to ask I know)