Back to Reykjavik

For our last day with the Collette group, we broke up the long drive back to Reykjavik with a stop for a natural wool-dying demonstration. It’s a one-woman operation, that she started after doing a Master’s degree on the science of natural dyes and it just kind of took over her life. She has a nice demo area with shop, but it’s also her home, so we watched her talk about the dyes from her kitchen, complete with cereal boxes on the shelf behind her.

In the afternoon, we went to Sky Lagoon , a geothermal pool and spa. We did the “seven rituals,” which included a cold-water plunge, a sauna, steam room and other things. It was fun and we felt very relaxed ahead of our farewell dinner. Arna arranged for a friend of hers to play some music at the restaurant while we waited for dinner, and it was so much more—really more like a comedy show, with many humorous self-deprecating remarks about Icelanders. Small-country syndrome: they say they are the best/largest, etc. at something (per capita).Read more