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Where can I swim in Iceland? | iamapolarbear.com

Where can I swim in Iceland?

June 16, 2022

Another addition to the Iceland Map Hub! This shows just about everywhere you can swim in Iceland, all on a lovely map! People don’t necessarily think of Iceland as a swimming destination. Perhaps they think of the Blue Lagoon but nothing else. However, just about every settlement has a pool, the pools are almost all … More Where can I swim in Iceland?

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I found every supermarket in Iceland | iamapolarbear.com

I found every supermarket in Iceland

February 21, 2022

Consider this post the launch of my new Iceland Hub! People know me for Iceland, both on social media and in real life and although there’s so much Iceland content here, I don’t really make it as prominent as I could, so now there’s a whole pretty page dedicated to gathering it all up together in … More I found every supermarket in Iceland

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Who am I?
I'm Julie, a travel, adventure and wellness blogger. I love Iceland, I love jumping into hot water and I do love a bit of snow.

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🇨🇿 Day five on the West Bohemian Spa Triangle and I’m on the move again - a morning in Františkovy Lázně’s parkland and then onto two trains to my third town, Karlovy Vary. 🇨🇿 Day four: an alarm at 7am for breakfast, packing and then walking the 2.5km in unexpected 0° (but very warm for the temperature!) to the station. 🇨🇿 Day three of the West Bohemian Spa Triangle and this is my day in Mariánské Lázně, which started very prosaically with a 1.76km hike down the big Czech Tesco. Day two on the West Bohemian Spa Triangle… Day one of the great West Bohemian Spa Triangle train adventure! If I’m putting it on Instagram, I feel like I have to have something to say, so I have to do some writing. This time tomorrow, I’ll either be in a passport control queue or searching for a bus stop and then first thing on Tuesday, I’ll be getting on a train and going off on an adventure! My itinerary says six trains in six days, which isn’t so bad and the bits in between should be nice. 🇳🇴 I just finished my Norwegian course and I won’t be sad to get my Wednesday evenings back! I’ve been learning Norwegian on and off, by myself, for the best part of a decade so I wasn’t sure if beginners module 1 was the best place to start. But a real human native-speaker teacher is invaluable and I’ve acquired a very unexpected vocabulary from it. Postcards from London the weekend before last.

About Julie

I'm a blogger, adventurer, lover of hot water, amateur paddler and polar bear who wilts in hot weather. Time (by day, I'm a researcher) and funds keep me within Europe and I make regular trips up to the north, especially to Iceland. I like the occasional adventure across Europe by train and I'm starting to make use of my weekends for 48-hour adventures. This isn't my only creative outlet - I've written two travelogues (one on a winter adventure across the Arctic Circle and one on exploring volcanoes during a warm summer road trip around Iceland) plus a little book of Icelandic pools and I have a fourth book in progress right now.

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