If it's in the guide it must be true...

Sometimes you read travel guides and the reality is far from the expectation...

This morning we headed to the local pool where they have everything - thermal pools /lap pools / steam baths/ water slides and just after we've done a km or so in laps the front page of the Lonely Planet Iceland guide walks into the pool, sits collectively in one of the pools and over the next half hour or so takes us live into a Pet Shop Boys video.

And this is what they look like - just as on the cover of the guide.

They're even wearing the same shorts - all of them.
They're all over the pool area and we're literally bumping into them, not that we have any problem with that.
And who needs to eat breakfast after this? We've had all the feasting we need.

More details of the Arctic tour can be found here.

Iceland

Superchilled and The Frenchman are heading off to Iceland a little later in the year ( ie late June).

What do we know about Iceland?

Not a lot.

It's an island that touches on the arctic circle.

It has long long long daylight hours - ie. no night in summer at all really, which means we won't have to sleep.

The people are white in winter, and according to London Preppy - very attractively so, but what are they like in summer?

If they look anything like the photo here - I'm not coming back.

Björk comes from there.

But what else is there to know?

Sure, I have the Lonely Planet guide - but I can't get past the cover.

Where are the places not to be missed?

The places to go, things to do, swimming pools to be swum?

Do we have any Icelandic readers out there? Or are you all still in hibernation?

Iceland : the ultimate superchilled destination.