Stop in Laugarvatn

After our trip to Brúarfoss, we made a short stop in Laugarvatn, a small town on Lake Laugarvatn with a good 150 inhabitants, a gas station, a shop with a fast food restaurant, a school, a campsite, a swimming pool...

After climbing over the slippery stones, we were all pretty cold and I didn't feel like standing at the stove and cooking. So we drove to Krambúð, right next to the gas station, and once again ordered the “family offer” with burgers, fries and a 2-liter bottle of Softdring.

Even if it's fast food - we really enjoyed being able to actually go to a restaurant and eat there during these Corona times. Of course, everyone kept their distance - and not just because we were the only guests.

Afterwards we walked a few steps around Lake Laugarvatn...

Sometimes they even bake bread in the hot riverside soil - of course my husband also had to check how hot the "puddles" were. At least he didn't put his fingers in the bubbling "puddle".

Here we took another look at the “Laugarvatn Fontana” swimming pool. We were here once in the summer to swim. But now in January the pool was only open on weekends (probably until May 31st). So it was very quiet... but we could still admire the Christmas lights.

We then took a quick look at a special building in Laugarvatn - the former Héraðsskólinn, the former district school.

The architect of the Héraðsskólinn in Laugarvatn was Guðjón Samúelsson (1887 - 1950), who from 1920 as "húsameistari ríksins", i.e. the "state architect", designed many of Iceland's most famous buildings, including the Hótel Borg in Reykjavík, the National Theater, the old one Pharmacy in Austurstræti, where the Apótek restaurant is now located, but also the church in Akureyri and probably the most famous church in Iceland, the Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík.

The building here in Laugarvatn was built in 1928 as a district school.

After the school moved to other buildings at Lake Laugarvatn, the old school building stood empty for some time. Today there is a guest house ("Héraðsskólinn Historic Guesthouse") here.

I have no idea what it looks like from the inside - but from the outside it's really something!

[Translated from here.]