Peter's Travel Blog

Today, we visited our last port of call, Bergen. We were on tour again; this time, a coach trip around the city and a trip up the Fenicular Railway. In many ways, today felt like we were finishing like we’d started; way back, at the beginning of the other cruise, our first stop had been Copenhagen, where it had rained...

Today, we arrived in Andalsnes, a small, difficult-to-pronounce, town hidden away in a beautiful, winding fjord. We seem to have seen lots of places similar to this over the last week or so; as we’re travelling South, though, the amount of snow about is getting noticeably less. A strong wind made it feel particularly cold, and they even had to...

One of the first things someone said to us at breakfast this morning was “did you see the lights last night?” Apparently, at around 10:30pm, they came out again, in all their glory, mostly visible at the back of the ship, for about 15 minutes… grrrrrrrrr! After breakfast, we listened to the story teller, Doreen, telling a few more funny...

Today, we arrived in Narvik, where we were asked to escort an excursion featuring a train journey.   There were four coaches in all, picking up four groups; two would be taken to the railway station to get on the train whilst the other two groups would be taken by coach to the end of the line, to be brought...

Today, we arrived in Alta. All of these Northern Norwegian ports are starting to look the same. The days are short, with the sun rising at something just gone 8am and setting at around 2:30pm, which has a subtle effect on the brain (namely – it just makes me want to sleep all the time – no change there then…)...