Alex and I were in Tromsø back on 2012 and that trip is what triggered this one – watching the Hurtigruten boats cruise up the Fjord and then driving around while deciding to sometime cycle thru. Tomorrow I start that but today I’m still cruising – and enjoying Tromso thank goodness.
The cruise has been excellent, the scenery rugged and awesome. As for the boat it is as a Jewel. Relaxed and leisured the way travel was – at least in a the haze of a golden memory.
At dinner during the cruise, there were four of us on the odds and sods table. Glen , a retired Korean War vet from Phenix, Arizona, Toby ( not his real name which I Csn’t remember – terrible to say) a year 8 Geography teacher form Bedford, U.K. who felt he should do this trip because he’d spent his whole time teaching kids about the midnight sun so thought he better go see it. Then there was Stephen, another Brit who lives in Hamburg. We spent lot of time figuring out the whole Brexit thing and it’s ramifications – at least that was between all the terrible jokes, most of which I can’t repeat here as much as I love to. “Why does the pope wear sunglasses in the bath?” I’m sorry but you’ll have to google the anwser to that one as self imposed censorship doesn’t allow me to put it here. Good luck Stephen with the ride from Kirkness to Hamburg.