deev in Iceland

the falls, just before the camera broke. ahhh, look, a rainbow. yes, it was FREEZING!! below (sorry a bit out of order), ahhh, Jana, Matt and me at Pizza express. yummy, pizza...

about to set off whale watching, nope, no whales here, just me and tomas ready for the wind and waves. and below, warming up at the blue lagoon. it was something like 2 degrees, and we were swimming outside in warm water, MADDNESS, but it was actually beautiful.
oh, and last week Beth, Schelle, Chris, Me, Kate (a friend of schelles) and Xen (a friend of beths) went to see wicked. and it was.... you guessed it.... WICKED! it's the story of the wicked with from wizard of oz, and i think it is a really clever story. and onto my story...

well, after many a laugh by Tomas, I decided to give up trying to speak Icelandic. It is a language that i think i will never be able to get my head around. there are just some sounds my mouth doesn't know how to make. i will stick with espanol for the moment.

anyways, so, i get there on Sat to be greeted by tommi at the airport, (thanks heaps tommi) which was lovely. We then explored Reykjavik on the way back to Tomas' house. A lovely house indeed. The architecture is quite bland, but everynow and then there is a randomly designed house/building just to keep you guessing.

Sunday we went driving around Reykjavik on the Golden Triangle (first place of parliament, Geysir, Water Falls). TRUELY MAGNIFICENT! and i would have taken more photos, but my camera got wet at geysir, i was taking a video and tomas and i somehow got under tha path of the hot water falling... WHOOPS. but we were fine (water wasn't as hot as i would have thought) but wet and so quickly got very cold. by the time we got to the falls, my camera had decided to hibernate... very wise choice. so unfortunately only one photo, even though we were about 1m away from the water.

then sunday, a great day of whalewatching (only saw dolphins, but still, it was a lovely day and Reykjavik was magnificent once again) and then off to the Blue Lagoon to warm up after a cold day on the water. (a geothermal pool).

this morning was only -4degrees C. Not such a cold morning. And yesterday i had lots and lots of winter woolies on. Even though the weather was sunny, it was still really cold. the lake has started to freeze up. i was going to try and walk on it, but thought that would be stupid. especially if i fell in, so just looked at it instead.

by the way, the hot and cold water to iceland homes is all natural, so the hot water sometimes smells like rotten egg... a great smell for after the shower! nice and clean! oh, and they just run the water like it is infinite. i found it hard to do the washing up as i kept turning the tap off and tomas kept turning it back on again, guess i'm just used to water restrictions.

anyways, think this is enough rambling for the moment...
just finished to Sigur Ros, an icelandic band i bought on cd. hooray!

oh yeah, and before i went away on Saturday, I saw Matty and Jana for dinner on Friday night at the wonderful Pizza Express. We wandered all of Shebu to find a good place fore dinner and ended up there (about 20m from where i live). Ha, that would be right. And it was great to see jana again. Can't wait till just after new years when she will be back in london. a bit cooler next time.

chau,
dos besos,
deev
xx