Peter's Travel Blog

Today, we arrived in our final port; Flam. or to be more precise… Flåm While many passengers had booked to take the famous train ride up the valley, we’d already decided we were going to go for a walk up to Brekkefossen Waterfall, a trek that would require a lunchtime sandwich. At breakfast, I ordered an extra sausage and bacon,...

We’re back at sea, heading towards our final port stop, Flam. Due to having lost a port early on (Alesund) because of the bad weather in the North Sea, it means, with all the shifting about, that I’ve ended up with an extra sea day, and an extra couple of classes. Being prepared, I always provide backups in my class...

Today we visited Tromsø. We’ve been here before (on the Marco Polo in 2014 and the Magellan in 2017), but my memory of previous visits is either slightly tainted by the weather or the fact that we saw it mostly from a bus, and in the dark. I have a memory of our tour visiting the new Cathedral – in...

Today has been our second full day in Alta, and we decided we would spend it climbing a hill we’d spotted from the ship, and also walked past, on the way back from the town centre yesterday. There was only one thing bothering us slightly; despite it not being a particularly mountainous hill, it did appear to be entirely covered...