I'm a cold-weather lightweight - while I love to travel, I tend to choose warm locations at warm times of the year. But lately I've been looking for a little more variety. So, when I agreed to join an upcomingpress trip to Iceland, I dove into outdoor adventure gear catalogs and started pawing through the Sale Rack at the local ski shop, determined to acquire lots of warm, bulky clothing since I get cold anytime the daytime temperature drops below 74 degrees.
So you can imagine my surprise when I received apacking listmarking a "bathing suit" as an essential for "anytime of year in Iceland". Wha? Silly me, I didn't think that volcanic hot springs are, of course, hot all year round and that the intelligent Icelanders have of course noticed that. Apparently swimming and soakingin outdoor, naturally-heated pools filled with mineral water is the year-round sport of choice in Iceland.
There's an old Viking wives tale that says that Iceland was named Iceland because its discoverer wanted to keep its warm, fertilesecrets all to himself - and that genuinely icy Greenland was actually an early example of savvy branding, not unlike all those hotels named something like the Supreme Grand Palace Seaview Arms.
But going shopping for bathing suits in November? When I'm already all pasty and pale and those precious lost-for-summer pounds have returned to provide some winter insulation? Even in California, I'm going to get some very odd looks from the salesgirl.
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