Domi in Ice-wonder-land: Reykjadalur hot river, classical music and Italian maestro..

HIKING IN REYKJADALUR, VALLEY OF THE HOT RIVER

Italian maestro.. He took me for one of the best adventures that I ever had in Iceland. I love this spontaneous way of doing things!
We planned to go to the swimming pool in the afternoon on May 1, but when we sat in the car he proposed that maybe we should go to Reykjadalur hot river instead! I'm spontaneous person too, so you can imagine that I didn't hesitate and immediately said 'yes, let's go there!' to such a nice proposal. I love travelling in Iceland and I had been to the hot river before, only once in July 2013, with my Icelandic friend that was my first host in Reykjavik...

Travelling to Reykjadalur.. Although it was such a sunny day in Reykjavik, as we were heading more to the south the sky become partially grey, covered with some dark clouds hiding the sun. We where listened to Hebrew music and my favourite Idan Raichel Project. I love ethnic and world music, it fills me with such good vibrations.

Still it was quite warm, the wind was not cold at least. Because it was so spontaneous, we were having with us only typical city clothes, no hiking shoes, no waterproof coats..

Italian maestro was driving well and firmly, also climbing so fast.. I really liked his way of being, cheerful and sincere, open and caring, admiring beauty of the world. We have quite similar way of seeing the world.
So we started hiking up to the Reykjadalur, the walk took us about an hour until we reached the wonderful hot river and entered the mysterious area of the hot steam, very thick white fog.

The hot river is quite popular touristic place nowadays, so we weren’t alone, there were also few people around on that evening. Some wandering groups of 4-5 persons and two tents further up the slope.
We jumped out off the clothes immediately (and it was cold, indeed!) and immersed our shivering, naked bodies, in the hot water. It was even too hot partially so we chose the place where the hot stream was merging with the colder one. It was such a big fun and pleasure, we spent in the river at least 2 hours playing with the water, cheerful as kids! It was such a wonderful moment!

Yes, finally I tried out that what I always wanted to do: I swam completely naked in the nature! It was such a fun, some other people were much further up in the water, with they costumes on, although it is very common in Iceland to swim in the natural springs just naked. I was feeling so well and as we where two, one next to each other, I wasn't ashamed at all. And we looked as a perfect couple, I knew it was a very special time for me. I was enjoying so much this freedom and the unique moment of real harmony and happiness!

After 2 hours of having fun in the water we decided that we have enough and maybe it's time to go back. It was about 8 pm when we came off the water and run for about 20 metres through the shallow river to grab our clothes and belongings. Completely naked of course! :) And I was having fun thinking about the whole situation.

Then we started to go down the mountains, back to the valley. My hair was completely wet so I made a turban of the sportive towel and looked like a genuine Bedouin woman, while he was having a colourful scarf around his head as a protection from the wind and evening cold. Going down and holding our hands, among amazingly beautiful nature, colourful mountains.. Such a pleasant walk!

We had also long weekend in Iceland at the beginning of May. I was working next day, in the afternoon at school, so we didn't have to hurry and were back to our town quite late. Still it was quite bright, Icelandic nights are over.. endless day is approaching the magic island :)

And today, more then 2 weeks have passed since our journey to Reykjadalur, he is so busy with preparing his next concerts and obviously prefers not to involve himself in a new relationship as he is leaving Iceland so soon.. So I heard from him only music and silence during last days.

This is very personal entry.. maybe I won't post this chapter at all..
Although I know that I am not writing only for myself, and it makes me more restricted in revealing some of my feelings. Still I need to keep some memories for myself and keep in mind some of the events.. let me think a moment where to start it..

In fact, I already wrote something about Italian maestro before. I call him this way, because he started reading 'Maestro e Margerita' by Bulhakov in the time that we met and he's a real maestro di concerto al violino, playing first violin in the most prestigious orchestra in Iceland.. and in Rome as well. So sweet, cute, clever, sensitive, sensible, caring, delicate, spontaneous.. very handsome guy, beautiful soul, clever man, real artist, my soul mate, travelled a lot, loves nature, is close to my spirituality, knows how to appreciate the present moment.. And he's great taste and cooks delicious meals! Swimming a lot every day, taking care of his body by regular exercising and also by eating healthy organic food.. So lovely, delicate and nice.. Also has his ups and downs and need to be alone quite often.
He's really an extraordinary person. I hope we will be in touch when he's back to Iceland after summer.

All this story only confirms, what I learnt in the first moment when I arrived to this beautiful island: Iceland is a magic place where you can meet a lot of wonderful, loving and sensitive people, travellers from all around the world!!!

And the great thing is that thanks to Italian maestro I started to listen to classical music again, somehow preparing myself for piano classes and maybe will join the choir one day.. It's been always my dream and Iceland is full of music and musical people. That's amazing thing here! :)