Hurtigruten; Saturday, 18 July, 2015

Despite most of South and West London being gridlocked because of various roadworks we made it to Heathrow in plenty of time, checked in and headed through into departures.

The flight was delayed by about 20 minutes due to the inbound plane being delayed by headwinds on its journey in from Ukraine, but apart from that it was a smooth journey through the airport and onto the flight.

As it was the first day of the school summer holidays, Heathrow was pretty busy, and it was nearly 50 minutes before we finally pulled onto the runway and started our take-off run.

With the help of the same wind that had delayed the inbound flight we made up a lot of the lost time, so that by the time we landed in Bergen we were only just 20 minutes late.

A very quick transit through the airport, with the bags being almost as quick as the passengers meant that we were soon on a Flybussen into town and to the hotel.

Checked in, we went for a quick evening drink in the bar before turning in for the night.