The next morning we had a few hours to kill before collecting the car, so headed to the swimming pool next door to the hostel. It was an outdoor, geothermally heated affair - like all the Icelandic swimming pools. The water was pleasently warm, and despite an air temperature barely over 10°C, we certainly weren't cold - especially in the "hot pot". This is a picture of a picture they had on the wall in the swimming baths - showing that even when it's really cold, people still use the swimming pool.

After a wonderfully relaxing swim, followed by an equally invigorating shower, we went back to the hostel and collected the (first, as it happened) car - a Nissan Micra. After a small detour shortly after picking up the car to have the lock on the door fixed, we headed out of Reykjavik to spend a day and a half doing the Golden Circle - which includes Þingvellir, Geysir, and Gulfoss.