Let’s keep going with the winter and ice content! It’s a new year and it doesn’t look like there’s going to be much international travel in 2022 either but that’s no excuse for not writing about it. So today we’re having some really cold content: what to wear in Svalbard in winter – and literally… More What to wear in Svalbard in winter
I’ve been yearning just a little bit to go to Svalbard lately and I knew I wanted a post about the place in the Polar Bear Winter Festival, because what’s more wintery than a frozen archipelago in the High Arctic? But I wasn’t sure what to write about. So I had a look at what… More Svalbard: the polar bear story
I don’t talk about TV too often on here, with the notable exception of Zac Efron in Iceland, but Ragnarok is Norwegian, about Norse mythology and on Netflix, so why not. Ragnarok season 2 was released last Thursday, I watched it hungrily, if a little warily after some of the teasers, and I want to… More TV review: Ragnarok season 2
We’re going right back for this story. In September 2012, I went to Bergen (which is in itself a beautiful city, if not one I’ve managed to find much to say about) and while I was there, I did the round trip up to the Flåmsbana, down to Flåm on the end of the Aurlandsfjorden… More Flåmsbana: Europe’s most beautiful rail journey
I’ll never forget my first visit to the Arctic. I’d spent a couple of days in Trondheim and then I was going to fly north and spend a couple of days in Tromsø. Tromsø is now an old friend. I’ve considered moving there for a few months, maybe even a year. But back in 2011,… More The day I fell in love with the Arctic
In November 2015, I went to Svalbard – that’s those really cold polar bear-infested islands right up north. It was amazing and I’ve since calculated that I was among the northernmost 0.004% of people in the world, which is quite a claim – that more than 99.99% of people on the planet are south of… More How to travel to Svalbard
Ever since I first saw the Hurtigruten, Norway’s “Express Route” ferries-slash-cruise ships in Trondheim in May 2011, I wanted to travel on them. However, boats and emetophobia don’t go all that well together and I put it off for a few years until very suddenly, in December 2015, I suddenly saw a way to do… More The Hurtigruten: The most beautiful ferry/cruise ever
In 2015 I went to Svalbard because it was cheaper and logistically easier to go to the High Arctic than northern mainland Norway. Obviously. It was November. Svalbard in November has twenty-four hour darkness and it’s cold. Very cold. This is a huge frozen archipelago where the polar bear reigns supreme. On my first full… More I nearly died on a dog sled
It’s December now so it’s past time to be thinking about winter trips – to Lapland, to the Arctic, to the cold and the snow and the Northern Lights. I like cold places and cold trips and I’ve made a little list of things you might want to take with you. 1) A hat with… More 10 Things to Take to the Arctic
July’s photoset is some of my favourite landscapes – so favourite that I’ve got them on rotation on my work computer. Think of me, by the way – as this is posted, I’m hopefully surviving my first ever Guide camp without an older, more experienced leader as ultimately responsible. I’ll tell you all about it… More Photoset: landscapes in black & white