Category: Norway and The Northern Lights

Today we were at sea. It’s been grim and grey outside, cold and overcast, with a slight swell, but the rocking has been mercifully minimal; I would put that down to the Magellan being a much larger ship than the Marco Polo, which is what we are more used to. Being our first sea day also meant that I had...

Today we arrived at the first port on our journey, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. It was a brief stop, mainly to pick up a load of Dutch and German passengers, arriving at 9am and leaving at 3pm. Getting everybody off the ship took much longer than usual. I’ve been to Amsterdam loads of times before, and disembarkation has never been...

This morning, Tracey and I were up early, and very organised (not like us at all), and heading down the A1 towards Tilbury Cruise Terminal, all in good time and absolutely bang-on to schedule. The journey was smooth and uneventful… until we hit the A14, near Cambridge. I thought we had it bad up North, with the improvements to the...

I am in the throws of double-checking that I’ve packed everything I need for the Arctic Circle. One thing is for sure; it’ll be cold, and probably snowy (so, that’ll be thermals, then). The last time we travelled to Norway in search of the Northern Lights, we failed to reach our Northernmost destination, North Cape, on account of the weather...