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Mainland Europe disappeared into the ship's wake, Nordkapp growing ever smaller as our latitude inexorably increased. Clouds and cold blue seas the only view from here on, as I occupied my sea day with my usual regime of laps of the deck (4 to the mile), guest appearances at the morning quiz and afternoon quiz, … Continue reading The Arctic “Expedition” – Part 2: The Icy Wastes
All around us was a barren landscape of rough close cropped moorland vegetation, punctuated every so often with reindeer trotting about nonchalantly and completely ignoring the bus as it roared past. Every so often a glimpse of the icy sea appeared between hills, but very little in terms of human habitation. This really was the … Continue reading The Arctic “Expedition” – Part 1: To the Top of Europe
Imagine the scene - standing on the edge of a flat table of rock with nothing but a 2,000ft drop straight down to the fjord below... We were coming to the end of our two week cruise up and down the coast of Norway. Ahead of us lay Norway's oil capital, Stavanger, and we'd not … Continue reading Fottur til Preikestolen