December 2024 - Tromsø and Melbourne.
^Dressed up for our son's wedding - a perfect day! We finished our coastal voyage, spent a night in Bergen and flew out early to Tromsø. We’d booked five nights (four full days) to maximise our opportunities to see the Northern Lights. We found walking around that first afternoon hard in the icy, slippery conditions. Our hotel, the Scanic Ishavshotel was pricey and the room was small but it was right on the water and super close (max five minutes’ walk) to where all our excursions left from. Best of all, we had an enormous window that looked at the water and across to the mainland (Tromsø is an island). The view was to die for even though most of the view was during pitch-dark hours. Tromsø is in the Arctic Circle. When we visited at the beginning of December it was bright (sort of!) at about 10am and dark again between 1 and 2pm. It was so strange yet also amazing to see. The first morning where we woke up in Tromsø, we woke to falling snow which continued to fall for the next fou...