Most towns have lavish public complexes with 25-meter indoor and outdoor pools, towering water slides that wrap around each other like double helixes and saunas. Icelanders seem to breathe in water as they breathe in air. Indridi Josafattson is the town's athletic manager. He says the shallow pool is intended for young kids but adults use it as well. It's very popular.
People chat here for hours, climbing out of the water to cool in the breeze, then dipping in again.
We say, oooh, what a nice day, or it's not very nice today, it's raining. We always talk about the weather because in Iceland we were always farmers once, and everything depended on the weather. Some members of Parliament in Reykjavik they go to certain pools and you can see them there at certain hours. Then everybody can talk to them.