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...

The train journey to bergen was lovely, lots fo snow covered mountains and lakes but half way through we hit a blizzard which meant we didnt see much for a while, althoguh it was fun at the stops to jump out the train for a few mins in the blizzard, this was hard core snow, not what we have in the UK. We both drifted in and out of sleep and played many games of trumps (think the score is 14-10 at the mo) for most the journey. When we arrived in Bergen the first ...

We arrived in Oslo as the light was fading, heading up north the number of daylight hours was dropping and was only going to get worse as we moved on with the trrip up north. The first night we were pretty shattered from the train trip, i know i know, we sit on our ass for 7 hours why are we tired.. i dont know!! i wish we wernt! Anyway, we went for a long walk round the town and covered a fair bit. After looking for somewhere to eat we soon realised how expensi...

There is not much to write here, it was a quick stopever on route to Oslo so we only had a night and a few hours the next day. We went out in the evening for a walk around the "Old Town" which was supposed to be nice and it was. Small cobbled streets with some cool shops and cafes. We had to walk through some other parts of the city to get there but didnt see anything special to report on. The next day we had a bit more of a walk, met a chap trying to spread th...

To copenhagen the land of the Danes Viking and where our Firend Nicks from so we were frightened! On route a rocking German gentleman from hamburg gave us some great places to visit, he turned out to be a music agent for up and coming bands all over the world, he did have an air of power metal to him. Arrived feeling a little bit shattered from the power of the repperbahn in Hamburg we headed through the centre of CH to find our Hostel. Lucily it was slap bag i...