Departing BHX
11月25日, イングランド ⋅ 🌙 3 °C
06:00 and just taken off for our first stop Frankfurt where we catch our flight to Bergen
Most disappointing Business Class but no Champagne on boarding! What’s the world coming to…?
Frankfurt Airport
11月25日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C
Now sitting awaiting departure to Bergen, we had a 30 minute hectic, to put it mildly, through the airport to make our connection and Lainey’s just told me we could’ve gone a different way inもっと詳しく
Bergen
11月25日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 1 °C
Well a really lovely day the sun is shining and we’ve been wandering round enjoying a beer and a Gammel Danske, ‘Old Danish’ a traditional Danish liqueur similar to Jeigermeister, after which weもっと詳しく
Depart Bergen
11月26日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌬 4 °C
Another lovely day wandering around Bergen and discovering old and new places. Relaxed with hot chocolate and coffee at the The Café Opera, a lovely little Cafe/Bistro we visited on our last trip.もっと詳しく
Alarm call from Lainey…
11月27日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
Apparently Lainey hasn’t adjusted her watch so thought we only had 25 minutes to get breakfast!
We called in at Florø and Måløy last night and just leaving Torvik these are simply collectionもっと詳しく
Ålesund
11月27日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
Arriving at Ålesund to be greeted by a Hooded Crow inspecting the lifeboats, apparently they’re AOK!
Off into Ålesund for a walkabout before lunch. It’s very quiet and peaceful, it must beもっと詳しく
Trondheim
11月28日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 3 °C
During the night we called in at Molde and Kristiansund but now heading for Trondheim expecting to be there for 09:45, we depart again at 12:45, so shall be busy!
The sunrise this morning was asもっと詳しく
Journey to Bodø
11月29日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌬 6 °C
During the night we called at Rørvik, Brønnøysund, Sandnessjøen, Nesna and Ørnes before we get to our next walkabout in Bodø at 13:05.
However just after Nesna we will have entered theもっと詳しく
Bodø
11月29日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
Arrived here at 13:25hrs, again quite mild so we headed off for the centre, the days certainly aren’t getting any longer and we already feel like evening is approaching, realising it won’t be longもっと詳しく
Off to Tromsø…
11月30日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 0 °C
We were expecting a tough time but actually it wasn’t too bad, when we left the Jacuzzi at 16:05, it was mild and a slight breeze but by 17:15, we were in the middle of a real storm
We, happily,もっと詳しく
Tromsø
11月30日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌨 -2 °C
We pass through the narrowest of channels going intoTromsø and it looks amazing with the Arctic Cathedral lit up on the right, although fabulous we have been before.
We landed in light snow andもっと詳しく
Rock’n Roll
12月1日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌬 0 °C
What a night quite heavy seas with lots of crashes thundering through the ship, luckily most of this after we’d retired for the night. At one point a cupboard released its contents and it was onlyもっと詳しく
Twilight…?
12月1日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌬 1 °C
Honningsvåg is experiencing polar night, meaning the sun does not rise above the horizon. Instead of traditional sunrise and sunset, there are periods of twilight, the duration and timing of whichもっと詳しく
Honningsvåg
12月1日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌬 1 °C
Honningsvåg is a small Arctic town and the gateway to North Cape (Nordkap) but our challenge, well my challenge, here was to find a shop so I could buy Hot Chocolate and, hurray, we succeeded
Weもっと詳しく
Voyage to Kirkenes
12月1日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌬 2 °C
Honningsvåg is behind us and during the night we have a further six stops, all less than the hour, before reaching Kirkenes, the furthest port on our Coastal Journey
We started the journey in theもっと詳しく
Kirkenes
12月2日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌙 -11 °C
Arriving into Kirkenes and this is as light as it’s going to get it’s also the coldest so far, actually -11*
The Memorial is to the soldiers of the Red Army that liberated South Varanger duringもっと詳しく
Checking our Itinerary…
12月2日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌬 -4 °C
Now we’ve left Kirkenes behind and turned back to the South, already at 13:35 it’s pitch black and you really feel you should be thinking about bed!?
Most of our stops on the return are short, inもっと詳しく
Vardo
12月2日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌙 0 °C
For some reason we were persuaded to go to a Christmas Market here at Vardo!
The market was in the ‘Star Shaped Fort’ but not terribly exciting apart from the Reindeer and Wild Sheep, well theyもっと詳しく
Kirkenes to Hammerfest
12月3日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ -3 °C
We enjoyed our dinner last night celebrating our completion of the North bound journey and the start of our return
We pulled into Batsfjord for about 30 minutes and were amazed at the Gulls, neverもっと詳しく
Hammerfest
12月3日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ -6 °C
The ship, video, sounds it’s foghorn just before to alert the longshoremen of arrival and secure the mooring ropes, this is also traditional with Hurtigruten
Arriving at Hammerfest it was reallyもっと詳しく
Journeying to Stokmarknes
12月3日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ -5 °C
Well we managed to grab the Jacuzzi again and enjoyed watching the moon in the snow, very romantic…
Dinner in an hour so relaxing in our cabin with a drink and checking what’s on!
So tomorrow atもっと詳しく
Risøyhamn
12月4日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 2 °C
It’s quite incredible to see these mountains covered in snow and then to see the lights at their foot, it’s hard to believe people live in these conditions
We’ve just reached, Risøyhamn andもっと詳しく
Sortland
12月4日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 1 °C
On the way we pass under the bridge where the returning excursion coach passes over at the same time, and timed so we ‘meet’ in the middle, tradition has it we celebrate the same moment wavingもっと詳しく
Stokmarknes
12月4日, ノルウェー ⋅ ⛅ 2 °C
Just an hour here so a quick wander into Hurtigrute Museet shop
Highway nr. 1
Lifeblood on the coast of Norway and vital part of Norwegian infrastructure for more than 130 years this a landmark inもっと詳しく
Trollfjord…
12月4日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☁️ 2 °C
This is the spectacular Trollfjord it’s the narrowest part of our journey and, at night bearing in mind where we are, it’s ominous
During this we enjoyed a Trollfjord drink with special mugs, andもっと詳しく



































































































































































































