Return to Tender

After the sandwich stop we headed back to the wharf. The Captain of the tender hadn’t particularly expected to take on passengers (there were only a handful of people in town to begin with) so the gang plank wasn’t set up. Norway has a slightly more relaxed attitude towards ‘health and safety’ than the cottling that we have become accustomed to in Britain; so we were beckoned to jump the (admittedly fairly small) gap from the quay to the boat (rucksacks and all).

When not acting as a tender, MS Geiranger conducts senic tours of the fjords, so has large windows which acted like a green house. We relaxed in the warm interior of the boat, out of the wind, until the sound of the ships cannon heralded the arrival of Polarlys.Read more