Diary

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…