Hurtigruten - MS Trollfjord - Day 8

As you all probably know, it does not get dark at night in the summertime when you are this far north. In the wintertime it is quite the opposite; for a long period of time, there is darkness. No wonder Kirkenes was the first Norwegian town to put up electric streetlights, in 1891 actually. Well, Kirkenes was yesterday. Today, ridiculously early, Pia and I climbed on a bus and headed for Nordkapp / North Cape. It was raining cats and dogs when we left the ship, harboured in Honningsvåg, but only 15 minutes later it stopped raining and the further north we drove, the better the weather got.

We arrived in Nordkapp and had our breakfast there. 71°10’21”North and that is as far as you can get in Europe. It was an amazing feeling to be standing at this northernmost part of Europe, only Spitsbergen is further north. I mentioned before (day 6 I think) that Kinnarodden is the as far north as you can get on the European continent. Northkapp is on an island (Magerøya), Kinnarodden is a part of the continent.

On our way to Hammerfest were we would meet the ship again, we stopped a couple of times. First we visited a Sami family, and their reindeer. And later a rather tacky souvenir shop.

Just before we reached the ship, it started pouring again and as a matter of fact it had rained on the ship all the six hours we had been away in much better weather.

Later that day we visited Oxfjord and thousands of birds appeared when the captain blew the horn

Late to bed, again. I wanted to see if I could catch something good in Tromsø, with my Nikon. Not half bad :).