The smell of boiled eggs

Some people say that the houses smell in Iceland. When I was 21 a guy on the Finnish national handball team said to me that the hot water in Iceland had a smell. I told him NO! That is NOT true!

Later I had to admit, he was probably right. The hot water smells in Iceland. I cannot smell it but that is because I live in Iceland. But when driving through or close to geothermal areas in Iceland I can feel the smell in the atmosphere from boiling water in the geysers and I realise that the Finn was right.

The hot water smells in Iceland and you can find the smell when you turn on the hot water at your home because in most of the houses (the older ones at least) the hot water comes directly from the geysers/geothermal areas. And the smell from these areas always remind me of boiled eggs.