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When I took my kids to Iceland, it was over spring break. We returned the day before Easter, so I knew I wouldn’t have time to put together Easter Baskets for them. Instead, I bought treats in Iceland and smuggled it home in my carry on. Instead of tons of candy pieces, Icelanders get one giant, decorated chocolate egg in their baskets. And one year, so did my kids.
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Although it looks like an abandoned shed and a natural pool from this angle, Secret Lagoon is actually a well maintained bath house with showers and amenities just off the Golden Circle route. Although it was still relatively secret when I visited years ago, these days you need a reservation or you probably won’t get in.
And can I tell you a secret? The day my family visited, I was so busy packing everything my kids might need for the Golden Circle that I forgot my own bathing suit at the hotel and had to pass my own underwear off as a bikini. (Don’t worry, I still showered properly.) These days, it’s possible to rent a bathing suit, so I must not have been the only person to make that mistake.
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As there are in small towns across the island, in Borgarnes, on Iceland’s Snaefellsnes peninsula, there is a local folk history museum. They are all much the same, with a reproduced turf house, a bunch of taxidermied native animals and obsolete accoutrements of farmlife. My two kids and I passed through this one in about half an hour, even with the guided tour. Then, on the way out, the kids spotted a wooden box pushed against a wall. It was filled with bones, horns, and seashells. The guide explained that children in the old days didn’t get toys from a store, they played with what they could find. My kids played with the items in the box for nearly an hour before I finally dragged them out of the museum as it was closing.
