Reykjavik also boasts five huge outdoor swimming pools that stay open all year long,
Even in the worst winter weather. How can that happen? Well, Icelanders have learned to
make use of all the volcanic activity that created their island in the first place and still rumbles
underneath their land to this day. They have put pipes down to all that underground heat and
now use it for all sorts of things. All the homes in Reykjavik are heated by water run through
the hot rocks below the soil – and so are the swimming pools! Even in the dead of winter, the
pools are warm and pleasant. You can swim and watch the snow coming down - it melts as
soon as it touches the warm fog about thee feet above the pool. It never reaches the
swimmers!