Hurtigruten; Sunday, 26 July, 2015

Given that dawn had been over two months previously it would be wrong to say that I was up before dawn, but for a Sunday morning I was up at a ridiculous hour to go out on the early morning tour to the North Cape for breakfast and then back through the countryside of the Northern most part of Norway back to Hammerfest.

After breakfast and a quick wander round the tourist trap that is the North Cape the bus headed back down towards the port, stopping to visit a Sami reindeer herdsman. From Honningsvåg we headed through the undersea tunnel back onto mainland Norway and the continued on through some stunning scenery (and some scenery that I'm sure would have been stunning if it wasn't for the thick fog that kept descending) down to the town of Russenes where we stopped for coffee and waffles, before completing the final 70Km back across the interior to the coast at Hammerfest and our waiting ship.

We took advantage of being back slightly early to head into a deserted lunch, by the time we finished people were having to hunt for tables.

The ship then headed south making its afternoon stop in Øksfjord before heading on Skjervøy, the port where I first discovered Hurtigruten 8 years and 6 days previously, where on the quayside there were large numbers of passengers waiting to join from the coach tour from Tromsø.

We continued south passing the MS Kong Harald in the late evening, after which I turned in for the night.

Weather

Foggy Cloudy
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Mild (0-10C, 32-50F)
15ºC/59ºF