March 29th we woke up in Tromso port. Beautiful and magical but with a snow twirling in a blizzard. We've never experienced this before.
We are docked on the island and the town is on the mainland.
We have shuttle busses that ferry us into the city so off we set - very carefully, due to the snow and slush - all tucked up in thermals, coats, beanies, you name it. Hey don't mock this is our first walk in the snow.
Our trip on the mainland included the Polar Museum, Arctic Cathedral and a trip in the Cable Car. Even had a bit of a snow fight with it still snowing on us. Something of interest - Even though the snow flakes settled on us, we were never wet. Ha.
We have now travelled past the arctic circle and out time is same as back home.
At night we spend time searching for the Northern Lights until we freeze our inners, but nothing yet at this stage.
The scenery here is beautiful but more commercial than Andalsnes.
We sailed off into the sunset at 18:00 - the sun is now setting later and it was still light at 19:30.
A local Northern Fusion Band, the Habaneroz, were on stage this evening and were excellent. Drums, cello, guitar and violin and did they make their instruments sing. Lovely.
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