I’ve done two posts about my short trip to Tromsø back in February – one about searching for the Northern Lights and one about going out snowshoeing. This post is about my trip up the cable car. Tromsø is over two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. This means the days can be short or … More Tromsø 2017: the cable car
I don’t know what it is about snowshoeing that has such a hold over me. I began wanting to try it when I was at the Altitude Festival in 2012 but I couldn’t fit it in my hectic schedule of snowboarding lessons, paraglides off snowy Alps and long evenings of comedy. I wanted to do … More Norway 2017: A snowshoeing triumph
Two weeks ago, I went to Norway. It was just a long weekend, really, and I packed in as much as I could. I went out looking for the Northern Lights, my tenth attempt so far. And it turns out the Northern Lights in Tromsø seem to be a little more reliable than elsewhere. We … More Northern Lights in Tromsø
In March 2014, I went off on a whistlestop tour of Lapland; that is, I had about forty-eight hours in northern Sweden followed by about forty-eight hours in northern Norway, because I wanted to go to Lapland and for some reason, I was finding it difficult to access the more remote parts of northern Finland. I … More The Iron Ore Line: the train from Sweden to Norway
My next big adventure is to Svalbard. In November. I know. I guess I’ve realised that was a bit of a mad idea. So I did some homework. I’m a big believer in doing some research, especially if you’re going somewhere special and there isn’t anywhere more special than Svalbard. So I needed to do … More Svalbard preparation
I Am A Polar Bear 