Friday, December 22

Day 5 - Heading to Tromso

Horizon newsletter said no sunrise today so I woke up at 8.30 in complete darkness. By 9.30 there was some daylight but its very cold with a few snow flurries.

As it is another sea day as we head towards Tromso, I decided to go to the talk about Norway and the Fjords at 11am, then just pottered around until I ended up in the Crows Nest with my kindle and a glass of wine

Think we passed some snow capped mountains en route but too far away to see much. Snow showers have been on and off all day but its the wind that is the killer.

Everyone is panicking about the predicted -15 tomorrow but tonight it's quite pleasant outside. Still freezing but the wind has dropped. 

There was an announcement this afternoon that we will be leaving Alta early, 5.30pm rather than 5.30am so I'm not sure what that means for the rest of the trip. I suspect more time at sea.

Chances of seeing the lights is diminishing as the cloud cover is too great.

Cruise Review

Aurora (P & O) is a nice small ship (1800 or so passengers) but she is showing her age. Nothing that bothered me but there seemed to be ...