The Settlement Center in Borgarnes

The town of Borgarnes, about an hour north of Reykjavík on the ring road, is a habitual stopping point for buses. So although we’d been here many times, we hadn’t seen anything except the inside of the gas station’s bathroom. Turns out, there are better places to spend time in Borgarnes, such as the wonderful Landnámssetur Íslands: The Settlement Center of Iceland.

Who could have suspected that the best museum we had yet visited in Iceland would be found in tiny Borgarnes? The Settlement Cente...