hot river & Eyjafjallajökull

yesterday (saturday) we left on a road trip to the south to see a few things that i've been meaning to see. we stopped outside of the town Hveragerði and proceeded to hike to the hot river. its about a 30m hike through valleys on the sides of little mountains. at the destination, there is a river which is hot! like 50 degrees or something! it is such a strange experience to find a small river of water that is too hot to even sit in. luckily it intersects with one of those more common cold rivers, and mixes to a temperature that will not burn you. basically 46 degrees all the way down to whatever the temperature is that day, the further down the river you go. the sun was shining, and someone had built a little damn out of rocks, making a little natural hot pot in the warm water. surreal, and amazing. i`m pretty sure its just about the best place on earth.

next stop was the dreaded Eyjafjallajökull: the volcano that is currently spewing ash all over Europe, and other places sometimes too. we drove to near its base, and just sat in the car gawking at the ash cloud, which morphs and shifts in a hypnotic way. kind of like staring at a bonfire, or watching eddies in a river. we sat there for a bit, and were thinking about driving into the ash cloud to experience the apocalyptic like darkness of the ash-cloud, but it was already getting to be 23h (and there was still light in the sky!), and i was tired. so we turned around and went home.

pictures here!