Category: Norway and The Northern Lights

Today, we arrived in the little port of Honninngsvag, our most Northerly destination… and it was raining. Tracey and I were on tour escort duty, to the North Cape. Three years ago, we did this same cruise on the Marco Polo, and had escorted the North Cape transfer, but never made it. The road conditions had been so bad that...

Today we arrived in Alta, a little bit further North than we we were yesterday. Better still; the skies were clear and the sun shone on the surrounding snow-capped hills. Even better-er… we were not on tour escort duty, so with a late-night departure time, we had the whole day to ourselves. We decided we would go for a walk...

Today, we were at sea, heading towards our next port-of-call, Alta. Being a sea-day meant work for me; today, I had them painting a wild seascape, and using sandpaper to create the seaspray (a popular session). Unfortunately, in the daily programme, they’d only mentioned the first class, starting at 10am (which was full to bursting), and not the second class,...

Today, we arrived in Kristiansund, Norway. Both Tracey and I had been given tour escorting duties again, only this time we were on slightly different tours. Mine was billed as ‘Atlantic Ocean Road + 5km Hike’, and an early start meant having to be bouncing out of bead at the crack of dawn, breakfasted and on the quayside at 8:30am,...

Today, we arrived in Olden, Norway. As it was a late arrival (lunchtime), and we were slightly delayed due to an earlier delay leaving Amsterdam, I was able to give two classes in the morning (Briksdal Glacier Tonal Study), both of which were full again. When the second class had finished, we packed stuff away as swiftly as possible and...