I'm not sure how, but happily the little house on the hill stayed upright. We headed off to hike the biggest glacier outside the poles all kitted up with crampons and an ice pick. We got to the bottom of the glacier, I looked up and had a little internal panic, it was super steep. I'm not a huge fan of mountains as it is, ice covered ones seem a bit silly. 4 hours later we were almost at the top of the glacier by the ice fall and it was actually pretty cool. ...

So it seems Northern Norway really wasn't that cold after all. Iceland has that market cornered. I'm sure I have been this cold before, I just can't remember when. Maybe it's just a huge shock to the system after a week in 20+ degree London? Our 7 nights in London were fantastic. I even heard Emmett, a reluctant London traveller, mutter the words "I kinda wish I had lived here for a bit". We didn't do anything too touristy really, just walked all over. Did...

Well we are back on our own and may actually be suffering slight withdrawals from the group. What do you mean we have to find our own way to the bus station?!? Plus we've lost our third wheel, shopping buddy in Kate. Being I've gone through the Baltics before, Emmett has picked our destinations. We spent a little more time in Tallinn, moved onto the spa town of Parnu and are now in Riga, Estonia for a few days. I'm actually being a bit of a crap tourist at ...

We had an early morning start for the Svartisen glacier and it looked like our weather luck had changed. Up to this point we had been unbelievably lucky with blue sky and sun. This was now replaced by drizzle and fog. Due to very early morning grumpiness I questioned the point of climbing up a mountain in this weather but went along anyway. Lucky I did as by the time we had driven and ferried, the fog had lifted. Then came the "walk" as described by our lead...

They say first impressions last, after meeting the tour group both Emmett and I wanted to run the other way very quickly. The bus was full of young, giggling girls. My favourite type. Being they had started the tour 8 days earlier in Berlin, packs had been formed and we were not sure we'd fit in and if we actually wanted too. Felt a little like being back in high school and I didn't particularly like that the first time around. Half way through turns out we...