Roger: Tuesday 16 June The day began at 5am with the weird sound from the speakers from the surrounding local mosques. Opening one of the little boxes beside the bed containing ear plugs I realised why. The hotel Neorian provided an interesting selection of Turkish breakfast. This included everything from dates, nuts, mixed vegetables, cheeses, fruit, meats […]

 Roger: Friday 12 June A late relaxing start to the day. The Charlotte St hotel where we are staying has a great breakfast in its well decorated restaurant. It was a good chance to catch up on a few things before heading off to the Tower. As with most people from out of London we found the […]

Sylvia: Tuesday 9 June             It was beautifully sunny when we woke up this morning and it seemed the wind had died down a bit – at least it did until we decided to wander across the road to look at the pseudo craters a bit more closely. Still definitely windy! The pseudo craters are formed […]

Sylvia: Sunday 7 June  We woke to a glorious sunny day and set off from Hofn heading up the Northeast coast to Egilsstadir. (The Iceland language is incredibly tricky with lots of funny vowels and letters that sound like something else. For example Hofn is pronounced Hopn, Pingvellar is prounounced Thingvellar – all very confusing). […]

Roger: Thursday 4 June Saying goodbye to Joel at 0615 we headed to Iceland. Joel is heading back to Christchurch to prepare for uni exams. He has been such great company over the past couple of weeks. He met us in Oslo as we boarded the flight to Bergen. He had this huge excited smile […]

After leaving Tromso we headed ever northward, first to Bear Island and then on to Spitzburgen, the main island in Svalbard. We eventually made it above 80 degrees longitude and explored many of the fjords and waterways around Svalbard enjoying some great hikes and fantastic wildlife viewing. To read more click on the links below […]

We continued northward stopping in a variety of fjords and at several of Norway’s northern islands – the last few days before we head far North to Arctic Svalbard. Now we are in 24 hours of daylight. To read more click on the link below: Norway 2015_4 FYI – we realise that picture quality in these […]

We continued up the coast of Norway, stopping in fjords and at small offshore islands to explore the picturesque scenery, eventually arriving at the Arctic Circle… To read more click on the link below Norway 2015_3

After spending the morning in Bergen, we boarded the Notional Geographic Explorer and started of on our journey north via the fjords of Norway to Arctic Svalbard. To read more about our first few days on board click the link below: Norway 2015_2