Hveragerói 🍌☕

The little settlement of Hveragerói is famous in Iceland for its indoor cultivation of bananas and coffee, I kid you not. The biggest green house production of bananas out side of the Philippines it's all possible because it sits on the edge of 2 tectonic plates and has multiple hot springs which provide boiling water under most of the area. It also has lots of earthquakes.

 The boiling water also allows food to be cooked simply by burying it for a few hours, providing the restaurants in the area with unique menus. 

   The curse of this geothermal water is the effect it has on the locals. Stories of hot springs opening overnight in people’s kitchens, bedrooms and living rooms are very common. For this reason there is no cemetery in the area; nobody wants to cook granny 😱.