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Links and photos (9 September 2024)

Photos

Went on a walk yesterday to the geothermal area behind the local horticultural school and it’s clear that this was once a tourist destination but has since been abandoned. (See the now blank signs.)

Didn’t realise why until I came to the rickety “bridge” over a steaming geothermal stream: it was probably impossible to tourist-proof it without disrupting a protected area.

A hillside. Steam gently wafts off placid mud springs. An old and worn blank sign that is next to a now overgrown path An old and worn sign that’s now blank, next to a simple wire barrier A very rickety “bridge” that is just a bunch of broken planks over a small geothermal stream

One of the local commercial greenhouses grows strawberries and has a self-serve booth where you can buy flowers and strawberries.

A greenhouse filled with strawberry plants A shelf, a fridge, and a box. The fridge has a few boxes of strawberries and has a sign that says “jarðaberjabox kr. 500” or “box of strawberries, 500 ISK”. The box has “pening” and “casa” scribbled on it in a marker. “Pening” is “money” in Icelandic
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