Day Five at Sea - Christmas Day- Tromso & Day Six at Sea - St. Stephen's/Boxing Day - Nordkapp
Christmas Eve's lecture on Vikings was rather cool.. not sure I actually learned anything, but Lars, the expedition leader who was giving the same lecture in German on the other side, got a great reception when he burst in, dressed as a Viking.. Interestingly, he sported the same costume later in the evening, when he accompanied Santa around the ship ! Dinner these days, BTW, tends to be buffet.. less work for the waiters, perhaps, and it does mean we can get more precisely what we want.. Well, we might be experiencing a snow shortage, but there was some in evidence on the hills yesterday morning: And I found it fascinating to watch our brief stopover in Finnsnes , the people embarking and disembarking on foot and by car - and one guy who rode a Harley off, and loaded it onto a waiting pickup truck.. We docked in Tromso by 2.15pm - it was already getting dark by that time: Unusually, we exited into a terminal rather than straight onto the quay. Cute map as we mad...