(Harstad)

(Harstad) Even if you are only stopping for 15 minutes, you still need to be moored properly and if you are stopping eight times in 24 hours, you get pretty slick at the mooring process

(Harstad)

Hurtigruten MS Polarlys (Norwegian for polar lights, also known as northern lights or aurora borealis) southbound

The preceding nine photos are all low resolu­tion due to a "technical issue" - the photo­grapher did not realise the camera was set on video mode

Mack Mikrobryggeri, Storgata 4. On the ship I was drinking Mack beer and when I drink real ale I like to get the brewery up on Google Streetview. In this case we got to drive past it in the coach

Polaria is the world's most northerly aquarium

If this was one of those "idiot drivers" videos that I like to watch on YouTube, the fork lift driver would push a bit more and the top pallet would fall into the water! But this is real life and the driver called for assistance to get it pushed properly on to the forks.

Having done a circuit of the prom­enade deck, this guy came ashore for our thirty minute stop here.

Wikipedia claims that Havøysund Bridge in the background is the world's northernmost bridge of any size.

This picture survived in the Wikipedia article internet troll for about six weeks.

Bamse a dog with a bus pass fondly remembered seventy years on

fish drying rack

The quay is made of wood and possibly fairly fragile so the mooring hawser is attached to a chain which goes through an hole in the quay to the shore where it is firmly anchored.

I think the blue tint on these six pictures is because they were taken through the windows of the Deck 8/9 lounges.

Our plane arriving

It is called Jenny Lind - a name we know well. She is remembered in Sutton.

Note "Passport control" in Russian - we are just 18km from Russia.
And about 30° E: the same longitude as Istanbul but it does not seem so far. At the equator 1° of longitude is 111 km but at 70° N like Kirkenes 1° of longitude is only 38 km.

Seen from inside the terminal building of Gardermoen Airport. Improbably tall control tower and curious sculpture of man throwing paper dart.