After 4 days on the cruise we jumped off at Harstad at 6 in the morning and found a bus to take us to Narvik. It was pretty cold when we got off, the coldest it had been so far, you couldnt leave your hands out of pockets for more than a minute before they started to get seriously cold! We found our little hostel right in the middle of town, great location with everything we needed around us... And a pub literally 10 meters from our door! We had an idea of wha...

On route up to Svolvaer we had a funny ol ceremony for crossing the Arctic Circle. It was basically thanking "God of the Sea Neptune" for letting usenter his dominion. I'll post up a video when i get the chance so you can see what its all about. Our last stop before Harstad, Svolvaer. We didnt have much time here but i dont think there was much to do except see the "Ice Room" Its what it says on the tin, a room filled with ice, well...not just ice there are som...

Bodo was a nother short visit, a nice small place but again, nothing i would come back for really. You also have to remember that we were seeing everything in winter time so in summer im sure there are a lotmore people around and more things to do, infact i know there are because we had a book telling us the activites and tehre were quite a cool few things to do, for example Bodo has the largest number of Sea Eagles in northern Scandinavia and in summer you can g...

Trondheim seemed a bit more industrialised, although the surrounding views were nice, the town itself was im sorry to say, nothing really that special, sorry if you disagree :p Its not a bad thing as the main bit and the reason we got the cruise were the daily views of the coast which never failed to amaze! We walked around town checking out all the places we were told were the towns main attractions and didnt really see anything that made us think wow. There wa...

The stops on the Hurtigruten were only a few hours so these few blog posts will be short and sweet. Alesund is lovely, we had 3 hours so we had a walk round town and pretty much covered it all and then went up to the top of the hill behind to get a good view. We like clibing up high if you havent realised that yet It would be nice to visit Alesund again for a short break away as it seemed to be a nice quiet place to chill out, have some good food and drink and...