Category Norway
TODAY THE SUN CAME BACK.
Sunday 26/11/2017 Svolvaer to Bronnoysund. Sunrise 9.33am. Sunset 2.26pm. -1C. Sadly, our third last day on board the Nordnorge. At last the sun is back. We now have an extended dawn and dusk, this morning it was light by 8 am, but the sun didn’t rise until 1.10 pm. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it […]
Ilze took the photos today.
Saturday 25/11/2017. Tromso to Svolvaer Sunrise 10.11am. Sunset 1.29pm. 0C. Ilze took the photos to day, my camera is exhausted. We went ashore after dinner last night to go and look at the old Lutheran cathedral in Tromso. Lots of people were off to the concert in the Ice cathedral and due back at midnight so […]
Again with the lights?
Friday 24/11/2017. Tromso. 10.00pm.-4C. After dinner Ilze and I went for a walk on deck. The sky exploded. This is what we saw. Ilze is in tears. I have no words. Pete.
Snow at last
Friday 24/11/2017. Kirkenes to Hammerfest. Sunrise 11.00am. Sunset 12.01pm. -4C. Latitude 70 degrees 39’48” It was -4C and snowing when we pulled into Hammerfest after an overnight passage from Kirkenes. A whole14 degrees warmer, but it was snowing and blowing. The blizzard like conditions made the trip ashore fraught with peril. A check at the […]
MINUS 18 DEGREES BUT WHO’S COUNTING?
Thursday 23/11/2017. Honningsvag to Kirkenes. Sunrise 9.42am Sunset 10.43am -18C. The times are different from yesterday because we have crossed time zones and come back south. Strange fact:- did you know that Kirkenes is less than 30kms from the Russian Border and is further east then Istanbul? This fact, is known only to a few, […]
71degrees10’21”
Wed 22/11/2017. Hammersfest to Honningsvag. Sunrise 11.54am. Sunset 12.17pm -7C 71 degrees 10′ 21″ ….a nautical term which I am completely ignorant about, which is the latitude of the northernmost point of the European continent. Today we went to Nordkapp, 71 degrees 10″21′ on our only guided excursion from the ship, a 40 minute bus ride […]
Sailing in my fathers footsteps.
Wednesday 22/11/2017 At Sea 71.16.95 N. 25.78.32 E. -6C Sunrise 11.02am. Sunset. 11.23am. (Yes, its correct) “Rounding the Nordcap” does not have quite the same ring as “rounding the Horn” but it has always had the same degree of difficulty to the world’s sailors. It is officially the northern most point of the European land […]
Ilze was deLIGHTED.
Tues 21/11/2017 Tromso to Hammerfest. Sunrise 10.07am. Sunset 12.55pm. (Yes. 12.55pm) -8C. Last night all of Ilze’s wishes for this trip came to fruition. Our first sighting came at 7.25pm, the announcement came during the last course of our dinner, the stampede from half eaten chocolate moose (don’t you hate predictive text) led us out […]
FROM BEYOND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
Monday 20/11/2017 Trondheim to Bodo. Sunrise 9.28am, Sunset 2.10pm. -7C We crossed the Arctic Circle at 7.10 this morning, and were greeted by snow capped mountains as the sun rose, which grew more and more snow capped. Just after lunch there was snow right down to the waterline. Going on deck for those wonderful photographs is a […]
Sprinting in Trondeheim.
Sunday 19/11/17′ Trondheim to Rovik. Sunrise 9.15am. Sunset 2.30pm. Temp. -7C. After competing in the Schiphol Airport event last week, todays was going to be easier. We were supposed to arrive in Amsterdam from Venice with an hour and a half to wait. Italian bureaucracy meant our plane’s departure was delayed. KLM had sent a […]
