Westfjords · With kids

A 16-metre indoor pool built just after the war, with a hot tub and a sauna, at Austurvegi 9. Adults 1,420 ISK, under-11s free, swimsuit or towel hire 1,100 ISK. Summer hours are 10:00–21:00 on weekdays and 10:00–17:00 at weekends.

Strandgata 7, open 10:00–18:00 daily. Two hundred years of sea-monster sightings from these particular fjords, presented straight-faced, with a coffee shop that also does pizza — which matters more than it sounds in Bíldudalur.

A rebuilt nineteenth-century fishing station on the shore east of the town: crew hut, salt house, drying hut and the rowing boat Ölver, with a curator who meets visitors dressed as the fishermen were. Daily 10:00–16:00 from 10 June to 20 August.

On the gravel road out to Látrabjarg: farming and fishing gear from the southern Westfjords, and an exhibition on the 1947 rescue of the crew of the British trawler Dhoon from below the bird cliff. Daily 10:00–18:00 from 1 May to 30 September, with a cafeteria and an information desk.

An outdoor geothermal pool 50 by 12.5 metres below the hotel at Reykjanes in Ísafjarðardjúp, fed by its own hot spring, with a steam bath and benches under the water. The hotel publishes no hours or prices, so ring +354 456 4844 before you drive out.