Tromsø; Wednesday, 24 May, 2023

Breakfast completed, but not wanting to face another trudge through the drizzle we summoned a cab to the hotel and took the easy route round to the bus station to catch the first of three of the same bus of the day on our journey to Bodø via Narvik.

To help that last sentence make sense it helps to know that there were three separate bus services we needed to catch, run by two separate companies, but all – confusingly – numbered the 100.

The first leg, and our first 100 of the day, was a reverse repeat of the journey we’d made last year back down to Narvik, though this time the weather was considerably worse making a lot of the stunning scenery disappear into the murk of cloud shrouded mountains and at times very heavy rain showers.

Though the worst of the weather lifted in time for one of the spectacular parts of the journey – the final arrival into Narvik over the Hålogalandsbrua and then immediately into a tunnel through the hills.

We had about 2 hours to kill in Narvik before the next, but different, 100 headed off on our next leg of the journey so we had a bit to eat in the shopping centre that the bus station is part of.

Sustenance completed, albeit with a particularly unpleasant Burger King as that was the only option available, we were ready to complete the journey onto Bodø, taking advantage of the supermarket in the shopping centre to stock up on chocolate and water just in case.