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                <title>Hiring a car in Iceland</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Don't listen to any scare stories about hiring a car in Iceland. The roads are extremely well-maintained and even in the depths of winter the golden circle route is an easy drive. We went in January and hired a car for £60 from National - a coach trip of the same route would have cost £80 per person.]]></description>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[There are many different tour operators offering coach journeys to visit one, more or all of the major geographical tourist attractions reached within a day's drive of Reykjavik - Gulfoss Falls, Geyser, the unpronounceable place where the European and American tectonic plates meet and so on.<br><br>Instead, hire a car from one of many agencies in the city, which will be promptly delivered to your hotel, and make your own tour instead. It's cheaper, and much more exciting, particularly if you head off early in the morning. Ten minutes from the city centre and it's hard to see any evidence of human life at all save the road, and you can appreciate the majesty of the landscape that much more.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Reykjavik Tourist Card</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The card offers unlimited bus, art gallery and swimming pool access for one, two, or three days. I know this doesn't sound spectacular, but consider this: <br>1) Cabs are horrifically expensive and the bus system, although somewhat antiquated, really works. Therefore you'll have more money to spend on the most expensive pints in the world.<br>2) These are no ordinary swimming pools. Thermal pools, four levels of hot spa pools (make sure you experience them in order, otherwise you feel as if your having a stroke), Olympic standard pools for true swimmers, there's even a waterslide or two, all naturally heated. And no chlorine red eye.<br>3) The art galleries are a great place to chill out, and dry out after being caught in one of Reyk's many storms.<br><br>- Strætó City Buses<br>- Reykjavík City Thermal Pools (7)<br>- Reykjavík Art Museums:  Kjarvalsstaðir, Ásmundarsafn, Hafnarhús<br>- National Gallery of Iceland<br>- Hafnarfjörður Maritime &amp; Folk Museum<br>- The Family Park and Reykjavík Zoo<br>- Árbæjarsafn, The Reykjavík City Museum<br>- The Sigurjón Ólafsson Art Mueseum<br>- The Culture House<br>- National and University Library<br>- ASÍ Art Museum<br>- The Living Art Museum<br>- The Nordic House]]></description>
                
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