Wed
13 Nov
2024

Trom­sø! The­re is always some­thing to dis­co­ver, some­thing that you haven’t seen befo­re. The most inte­res­t­ing book­shop in town, for exam­p­le, well hid­den in Sjø­ga­ta 20. Recom­men­ded!

“Trom­sø fri­mer­ke og mynt” in Sjø­ga­ta 20: Tromsø’s most exci­ting book­shop.

So, here we go again! One more time, as far as I am con­cer­ned. One more time “Arc­tic under sail”. With good ol’ Anti­gua, loo­king for nor­t­hern lights and wha­les.

Nor­t­hern lights we found direct­ly on the first evening 🙂 and as for the wha­les, we will have to wait a litt­le bit. The wea­ther is sim­ply incre­di­ble. One storm after the other. Bet­ter to hide some­whe­re in the fjords for a while befo­re we head towards Kvæn­an­gen. But no worries, we will get the­re.

Pho­to gal­lery Trom­sø – 12th Novem­ber 2024

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Sun
10 Nov
2024

As I men­tio­ned befo­re, the last night was long. Or short, depen­ding on how you look at it. Nor­t­hern lights were the thing, the­re had been quite a show on the sky. Ama­zing!

After a litt­le walk in and near Ham­nes with gre­at views of the stun­ning Lyn­gen­alps we set sails in Lyn­gen­fjord. Sai­ling the­re – and I mean real sai­ling – was a fan­ta­stic was to round this voya­ge off!

Pho­to gal­lery Ham­nes & Lyn­gen­fjord – 10th Novem­ber 2024

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Then we went back to Trom­sø, and this is the last blog ent­ry of this voya­ge. It was inde­ed a spe­cial one, with a lot of wea­ther that can aptly be descri­bed as awful. Yet, it was a gre­at trip, we saw a lot and the spi­rits were good. Thanks to all of you who were part of it!

Sun
10 Nov
2024

During the mor­ning we were still in Skjer­vøy and went on a litt­le tour up to one of the moun­ta­ins near the town. The­re we had a nice view over the bay and sur­roun­dings.

Pho­to gal­lery Skjer­vøy – 09th Novem­ber 2024

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In the ear­ly after­noon the wind wea­k­en­ed and we set off towards Ham­nes, a litt­le fishing vil­la­ge on the island Uløy. Ano­ther kind of wind picked up but this time it was the solar wind and soon we could enjoy the nor­t­hern lights. Awe­so­me after days only with clouds, storm and rain. The sky was not real­ly clear and clouds came and went but this made the sce­n­ery even more magi­cal.

If you want to read more about nor­t­hern lights, the­re is a lot of infor­ma­ti­on on my web­site here.

It tur­ned out to be a long evening … 😀

Pho­to gal­lery Ham­nes – 09th Novem­ber 2024

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Thu
7 Nov
2024

We had spent the night in Skjer­vøy, the litt­le metro­po­lis (well, almost 2000 inha­bi­tants) of Kvæn­an­gen. The port whe­re the famous Fram rea­ched civi­li­sa­ti­on again after the legen­da­ry ice drift across the Arc­tic Oce­an in 1893-96.

We don’t tra­vel on that level 🙂 but nevert­hel­ess it was adven­tur­ous here and today, with wind and wea­ther and ple­nty of orcas and other wha­les!

Pho­toa gal­lery Skjer­vøy & Kvæn­an­gen – 05th/06th Novem­ber 2024

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Wed
6 Nov
2024

And off we went. On the first evening we went to Len­an­gen, a very small port (“port” is a big word …) on the west side of the Lyn­gen Alps. We didn’t spend too much time the­re, though; we were on the move again alre­a­dy during break­fast time – and found our first Orcas soon after depar­tu­re. Ama­zing!

Luck remain­ed on our side with a love­ly sight­ing of Fin wha­les as soon as we had rea­ched the Kvæn­an­gen area.

Pho­to gal­lery Trom­sø, Len­gan­gen & Kvæn­an­gen – 04th/05th Novem­ber 2024

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Mon
4 Nov
2024

North Nor­way under sail! We have got a full week ahead of us on good ol’ Anti­gua, focus­sing on the Kvæn­an­gen area around Skjer­vøy, hoping for wha­les and nor­t­hern lights.

Pho­to gal­lery Trom­sø – 04th Novem­ber 2024

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Trom­sø is always worth a visit, with its inte­res­t­ing muse­ums and this – for north Nor­we­gi­an stan­dards – big city is gene­ral­ly char­ming. As long as you don’t mind a piz­za to be more expen­si­ve than 20 Euro, that is.

And may­be we should have spent some more money on wea­ther. The fore­cast is mixed, to put it mild­ly. North Nor­way in Novem­ber …