Norway: Glow with the flow Never mind the aurora – it’s the overall beauty of the ‘polar night’ that makes a cruise along the coast of northern Norway unique. Carolyn Waudby reports. It’s 7.45am and we’ve just crossed the Arctic Circle – 67 degrees north and marked by the small, barren Vikingen Island we can just make out through the cabin porthole. We celebrate with dark chocolate – among essential provisions brought from Sheffield. Later that morning, we’re summoned to the top deck of our cruise ship, the MS Midnatsol, for an official Arctic Circle “baptism”. With trumpet fanfare and the clang of a bell, Neptune strides in clutching his beard and trident against force seven winds. We line up to have ice cubes poured down the back of our necks. Fortunately, they melt within seconds under my four layers of clothing. We forge northwards, skirting the coast of Norway towards its tip on our Hunting the Light cruise, the temperature steadily falling and the sunrises becoming later and later. In Finnsnes at the mouth of the Gisunder Fjord, cold air meets the warmer water, filling the harbour with thick, white mist pushed towards the harbour mouth by the wind so its tufts resemble charging [...] leedsinnews/norway-glow-with-the-flow-2/
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:45:16 +0000
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