Fort Collins Public Library recently issued the following announcement.
Date: 9/8/2020
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Please Join Klaus Lorenz for a presentation on his travels to Iceland, a country in the North Atlantic between Greenland and Norway, culturally considered to be part of Europe. Visitors generally visit Iceland during the winter months to see the northern lights. In Reykjavik, the northernmost capital of the world, we will visit city hall, the magnificent cathedral, and the Northern Lights Center for a lecture about the "Aurora Borealis" and how this multicolored spectacle illuminates the sky. In the industrial harbor of Reykjavik, we look at some whaling ships; Iceland still permits the hunting of whales. We then travel to the Blue Lagoon to take dip in the balmy waters created from the effluent from a power plant. Power plants in Iceland generate electricity and provide hot water to heat homes and also provide low-cost energy to power greenhouses that grow vegetables all year long. We will walk through some of the geothermal areas and past ice-covered waterfalls, and move on to a lava park to take a ride in a hovercraft in a lagoon next to the largest glacier on the island. Our final stop will be Thingvellir National Park where in 930 AD the Althing, the oldest surviving parliament in the world, convened.
Klaus is well known to those of you who regularly attend International Night. He has traveled to over 100 countries and shared many of these adventures with us at the Library Program over the past 20-years. He is retired from Colorado State University and enjoys traveling the world.
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