I should have more to say about Tromsø itself but as I don’t, not really, I’m going to jump straight from How I spent 2 days in Trondheim in 2011 to seeing the Midnight Sun. Tromsø is a very pleasant city; it’s got a relatively spectacularly huge bridge linking the city on the island to … More I saw the Midnight Sun in Tromsø
I went to Norway for the first time in 2011 and to make the most of it, I had a couple of days in Trondheim before flying up to Tromsø for a couple of days. That pre-dates this blog but for the sake of completion, for the sake of filling in gaps in my Norway … More How I spent two days in Trondheim in 2011
It’s been a while since I’ve seen the Northern Lights. To be honest, I don’t have a great track record. I was in Iceland in December 2024 and February 2023 but on one trip, it was too cloudy and I was too tired and I expected the hunt to be cancelled, and on the other, … More Tromsø seems to be a good place to see the Northern Lights
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