Sunday, 27 January, 2013 |
In the previous week Heathrow had nearly closed on several occasions… |
Monday, 28 January, 2013 |
Several hours to kill in the morning… |
Tuesday, 29 January, 2013 |
…Sleep, unfortunately, was not something that was easy to come by… |
Wednesday, 30 January, 2013 |
As to whether there was any rough water after leaving Kristiansund I wouldn’t know… |
Thursday, 31 January, 2013 |
I’d set the GPS on my phone to wake me just before we reached the Arctic circle… |
Friday, 01 February, 2013 |
It was still snowing heavily as we had breakfast… |
Saturday, 02 February, 2013 |
Despite standing out on deck for nearly an hour… |
Sunday, 03 February, 2013 |
After an early morning stop in Vadsø… |
Monday, 04 February, 2013 |
Whilst we were having breakfast we briefly stopped… |
Tuesday, 05 February, 2013 |
In the end we finally docked in Tromsø a little before 12:30… |
Wednesday, 06 February, 2013 |
By now I had clearly developed my sea legs… |
Thursday, 07 February, 2013 |
After a very disturbed night’s sleep… |
Friday, 08 February, 2013 |
It was lucky that I turned in relatively early… |
Saturday, 09 February, 2013 |
After breakfast and checkout… |
Saturday, 18 July, 2015 |
Despite most of South and West London being gridlocked because of various roadworks… |
Sunday, 19 July, 2015 |
Breakfast completed we checked out of the hotel… |
Monday, 20 July, 2015 |
Unlike the MS Lofoten back in 2013… |
Tuesday, 21 July, 2015 |
Following the disturbed sleep of the previous night… |
Wednesday, 22 July, 2015 |
Docking several times overnight ensured a disrupted sleep… |
Thursday, 23 July, 2015 |
After a late night, you'd hope for a lie-in… |
Friday, 24 July, 2015 |
Several overnight stops ensured a slightly disturbed sleep… |
Saturday, 25 July, 2015 |
Breakfast and then off the ship at Kirkenes to join the tour to the Russian Border… |
Sunday, 26 July, 2015 |
Given that dawn had been over two months previously… |
Monday, 27 July, 2015 |
Due to the way the ship has to manoeuvre to dock at Finnsnes it was a disturbed night sleep… |
Tuesday, 28 July, 2015 |
Breakfast completed and out on deck just in time to cross the Arctic Circle again… |
Wednesday, 29 July, 2015 |
Breakfast whilst in Trondheim… |
Thursday, 30 July, 2015 |
Overnight the ship went round the West Cape of Norway… |
Sunday, 29 April, 2018 |
We boarded about 20 minutes after the ship had docked… |
Monday, 30 April, 2018 |
Life on the Hurtigruten assumes a routine very quickly with a continuous conveyor belt of stunning scenery, ports stops and regular meals… |
Tuesday, 01 May, 2018 |
Overnight there were a couple of stops, but by the time we met for a late breakfast we were already approaching Kirkenes… |
Wednesday, 02 May, 2018 |
After breakfast there was the impressive, if quite ugly, view of the Arctic gas plant on the outskirts of Hammerfest before we arrived in the town… |
Thursday, 03 May, 2018 |
Several stops during the night, and in the morning we awoke docked at Harstad… |
Friday, 04 May, 2018 |
Breakfast and then shortly afterwards we reached the Arctic Circle… |
Saturday, 05 May, 2018 |
We awoke to a damp Trondheim and an almost empty ship… |
Sunday, 06 May, 2018 |
Overnight the ship went through open seas and round the Vestkapp, or West Cape, an area of sea prone to storms… |
Monday, 07 May, 2018 |
After breakfast it was time to checkout and start the long journey back home…
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