Or warm up in the Seljavallalaug outdoor swimming pool in Skógafoss, which is built into a rock wall and is one of Iceland’s oldest. It’s run by volunteers, free to visit, and gloriously bare ...

After swimming for just half an hour in the cool, back-lit lap pool, it wasn’t hard to see that swimming serves Iceland well in terms of boosting its already impressive happiness index.

Don't miss the 80-foot Höfn swimming pool, complete with all the Iceland bathing essentials: hot tubs, steam baths, and an ice bath. Seyðisfjörður is another hidden east Iceland gem.

With so much geothermal energy, Iceland is a culture of swimming pools and hot tubs. It seems almost every visitor who can afford the steep entry fee decides to kick off or cap a visit to Iceland ...

This is a meeting that has been months and thousands of miles in the making, taking you into Iceland’s ethereal north. Swimming with whales is bucket list stuff that most of us will never get ...