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...

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...