Originally Posted by
Out of my Element
Very few of the tourists? Or very few of the help?
We've only found one Icelandic person in the tourist industry who didn't speak perfect English so far: The taxi driver on our first trip from the airport to Reykjavik (we didn't know about Flybus). Really got us nervous about communicating. And it's never happened again.
Its a total guess on my part as I didnt ask anyone where they were from. I heard what sounded like Eastern Europe/Russia. There was a bus load of Asians . Thats for those who were in the lagoon waters. when I heard English it was usually between 2 people, and the groups 3+ folks were mainly speaking something other then English. Now I basicaly hung out by the so called geyser where the boiling water comes up from, and the area by the steam rooms/waterfall. Could be had I hung by where you exit the building where most folks were that I would have heard more English. Total time there just over 3 hrs in the water