Learning Icelandic is a great fun. 'Ljóð í sandi' means poetry in the sand..

© triskel         Geothermal beach in Nauthólsvík, Reykjavik

That's funny feeling to speak 4 languages on daily basis. Yeah, I speak English and Polish and listening to Icelanders everyday, than twice a week I have my Icelandic lessons in Spanish with Spanish-speaker's association. And once a week I have a language exchange with my new Icelandic friend, a journalist and traveller. We're speaking English why teaching each other Icelandic and Spanish. That's a real exercise for my brain! I love it and I'm doing very well as I got some complements about my Icelandic pronunciation from my Portuguese teacher (speaking funny mixture of Spanish and Portuguese with us during lessons!). Also my Icelandic friend was surprised that I already know a lot about Icelandic and can create whole sentences.. Yep, I hope to speak Icelandic quite fluently until August because I'd like to start to study this beautiful language at Háskóla Íslands (Icelandic University). Everything depends on my future work and other issues, but still it's great plan. This or the next year.. we will see :)

On the photo you see the Geothermal beach in Nauthólsvík, only 30 minutes walk from my place. It really looks like Mediterranean one! It's filled with golden sand and you can spent up to 2 hours in a rectangular hot pot while watching a beautiful sunset at the bay. Some people are going to swim in the ocean afterwards as at this point it's much warmer because of the geothermal water supply. I went there to 'swim' in the hot spot with my Canadian friend once. 

 In the summer of 2000 the Geothermal beach in Nauthólsvík was opened for the first time.
Golden beachsand was braught in from elsewhere and big seawalls were build which form a lagoon where the cold sea and hot geothermal water fuse together.  It is actually more likely to see a beach like this by the Mediterranean sea than  in the most northwardly city of the world that is situated by the North Atlantic sea!  The goal with this project was to make this bay, Nauthólsvík, a diverse outdoor area with numerous possibilities as, for example, sunbathing, seabathing and sailing.

© triskel   Árstíðir at Kex hostel, first concert in 2014

And coming back to my Icelandic lessons.. I also plan to take some piano or guitar lessons and go for a choir rehearsal once.. At the moment I am going for concerts a lot. On last Thursday night I was at the wonderful live concert of my Icelandic colleagues' band called Árstíðir at Kex hostel. Great performance!!! Much better then I expected while listening to their recordings. A real volcano of energy and a lot of sense of humour mixed with professional male voices and great instrumental arrangement. I was very happy to see the premiere of their new songs and listen to the old ones.. Fantastic evening!!! Here is a live recording from
the kitchen session with 'Ljóð í sandi'. Enjoy!