Saturday, August 10, 2019

Iceland - an open air museum and a swim


Bit of a late stat today. Reyka’s routine is completely out the window and the morning nap is getting later and later. We first went to Árbær open air museum which is out of town. It’s a quaint museum with all of the staff dressed in character dress. We wandered around the old houses such as the church with beams about 3 inches shorter that me. I couldn’t imagine walking down the aisle in that church, I’d be ducking every other step. Reyka loved the room full of old toys that she could play with. She was very keen on an old fashioned dolls pram. Ali and I couldn’t resist the park. We played on the swings and sea saw which I’ve not been on for years. We had coffee and strawberry cake in the cafe and were surrounded by chickens looking for us for drop crumbs.

We then visited Laugardalslaug, a large outdoor swimming pool which was opened in the 60’s. It wasn’t my favourite. It has a huge racing pool with big viewing stand, a kids pool, slides, hot pots. What really put us off was the mould on the toys in the pool and you couldn’t see the side of the pool because of the mould on the poolside. Even the children’s pool was a little chilly so we spent most of the time in the shallow hotpot. We couldn’t have been there more than 30 minutes. It took us longer to get ready. The changing rooms even had guards in the showers to make sure people showered naked!

Overnight - Stay Bolholt apartments

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