This morning we were up and breakfasted for a morning appointment. By coincidence a friend of ours, Marilyn, had also booked a Hurtigruten trip this week, on MS Nordkapp - and this is MS Nordkapp coming towards us. We did see Marilyn, but were too busy waving manically to take photos! Hope you are having a great time Mal xxx
There are several stops each day -some are at a port a distance from the town, just for loading and unloading, and a few have been for just 5 minutes - maybe delivering and collecting post? but some are for a couple of hours. We stopped at Hammerfest at lunchtime today and decided to get off and have a look around. Hammerfest is the world's northern most town, and seems to exist largely as there is a thingy concerting North Sea gas into liquid, so it can be exported. This is just a pic of a road leading to a carpark, but see below for a zoom into the view behind those people
It didn't photograph brilliantly, but it was stunning. Especially with the sun on the snow: we haven't seen much sun
This is me taking a pic of Brian taking a pic of the ship. You see the two yellow life boats? Can you see a sticky out window (or grey block) just above and to the right? That is our window
Just had to share this with you - my lunch today. Our meals are included, and are yummy. Breakfast and lunch are buffet style, so I had a bit of nearly everything!
You will have to take my work for the fact that there are houses on this island, along the shore. But no roads - why would people choose to love out here, and how do they get timber etc delivered to even build their houses? (and I bet Tescos and Perfect Pizza don't deliver!!!)
We've had problems with WiFi connections but hope that we are now sorted: I stood in *the* right place to Wifi download the photos and then used one of the passenger computers to type the text, but we are getting the hang of things!
Here's hoping the lights come again tonight - and that I'm awake for them!
