Flying into Tromso was an interesting experience – a bleak, snow-dusted landscape, with mists hanging low over the mountains and curling round the fjords.
I’m on board Hurtigruten’s Midnatsol, which sets sail tonight to Hammerfest (why does that always sound like a heavy metal festival to me?), the most northerly town in Europe.
But the primary reason I’m here is to see the Northern Lights. It’s been a long-held ambition of mine (long before the Joanna Lumley programme!), but whether we will or not is anybody’s guess. They go on all the time, apparently, but you need just the right conditions.
A few degrees below zero and a clear sky are the two main ones, and we’ve got one at least: the former, unfortunately however, it’s looking pretty misty out there right now.
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