The temperature was nudging -10 at 6am as we got our cab out to Tromso airport for our flight to Oslo. Unsurprisingly the aircraft needed to be de-iced after sitting at the airport overnight. An experience we don't usually see, certainly a first for the boys. Cruising at 35,000 feet we finally saw the sun after about 8 days of either total cloud or being too far north. It wasn't warm but it was good to see. Landing in Oslo we parked near a Thai and an Ethi...

I'm not spending a lot of time writing, you may have noticed, so lets sum up Tromso in bullet points so I can catch up…….and I'll try to go back and cover the Hurtigruten later. For now I will work on keeping photos up to date and captioned Tromso · We stepped off the boat at 2:30pm local time. It was -9 degrees and dark. Welcome to the Arctic circle. · Arriving on Christmas day things were quiet for 1.Julday and 2.Julday as th...

What a difference a day (and some sleep) make. An early and cold (-4) wake up in Oslo this morning and straight down to Oslo Airport train station. Conveniently the station was directly under our hotel room for what should have been a 5 minute walk. ' The boys however got distracted by the snow on the ground and the first of what I think will be many snowball fights broke out. There was no clear winner as the snow was too dry and light to really form int...

You know that in a 36 day trip something is going to go wrong somewhere. You just don't expect it to happen twice on the first day. Its an auspicious start when your car breaks down on the drive to the airport meaning you have to dump it in a side street in Arncliffe and call a couple of Ubers to get you the last 2 km's to the airport. The first flight to Hong Kong on Cathay was pretty uneventful, we slept most of it. Our Finnair flight arrived and looked ver...