Þingvellir & Surroundings - 1st August 2003

Þingvellir & Surroundings, 16/18: Albert Einstein, geothermally grown at the Eden centre

Having fully explored Žingvellir, we headed to our hostel for the night - Hveragerši. Hveragerši was a lovely small "town", in the Icelandic sense of the word - a settlement consisting of around 2,000 people. It was our first experience of a major settlement outside Reykjavik, and the small size of the place took us somewhat by surprise (although with hindsight, it was relatively large compared to a lot of the other places we would stay).

The town was situated on an intensely geothermally active area, and this heat was used to heat greenhouses, which in turn were used to grow all manner of foodstuffs and plants... and, as this next picture shows, a huge Albert Einstein head.

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