I was having lunch a couple of weeks ago with two colleagues at work and one colleague mentioned she’d visited Iceland last year. She’d gone there with three friends, two of whom became engaged on that trip. The second colleague said he also had some friends who’d gotten engaged on their trip to Iceland in 2017...

I rarely visit Iceland without spending time at Snæfellsnes – sometimes as a day trip, sometimes longer. It is a magical, picturesque place. And even though it’s only a short drive from Reykjavík, which means there are daily bus tours from the city during the summer season, I have never encountered the crush of tourists that I have felt elsewhere in Iceland...

As you travel around Iceland, be sure to make time to visit the Textile Museum in Blönduós (Heimilisiðnaðarsafnið) located at the point where the river Blandá empties in Húnafjörður. Founded by the Women’s Union in East Húnavatnssýsla, and opened in 1976, it is the only museum in Iceland devoted to homemade textiles and wool...