Tromsø Day 1
Dec. 11th, 2013 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckykaaSo, day 1 of my arctic expedition. Got to Gatwick Airport. Local traders tried to convince me to buy some of their wares, but I turned them down. Caught the plane and flew to Norway. Wi-fi on board. Shame my laptop had no juice left but after some fiddling discovered wifi on phone can be turned back on in Flight Mode, so tweeted throughout the flight.
Landed. Very cold outside the airport. Tromsø is a tiny little airport because it's not a particularly large city. Probably has a few planes per hour so passport control was just around the corner from disembarkation and baggage reclaim was a very short walk from there. This does mean there's a long wait for bags. Found hotel, struggled through the ice - very slippery. Rain on snow does that - then wandered around town. Stopped for a drink.
Met up with a friend the next morning who took me to one of the museums - Tromsø University Museum which has a strong emphasis on the Sami culture as well as natural history and geology exhibits. Then had sushi. Very nice. Quite unusual; I think this was a platter of more experimental flavours. Went to tourist office and thought I'd book a couple of excursions but computers were down.
Short days are really throwing me off. There's no sun until January. It does start to get light at 11:00 or so and there's a couple of hours of day but by 2pm it's night time. Feels much later than it is.
Landed. Very cold outside the airport. Tromsø is a tiny little airport because it's not a particularly large city. Probably has a few planes per hour so passport control was just around the corner from disembarkation and baggage reclaim was a very short walk from there. This does mean there's a long wait for bags. Found hotel, struggled through the ice - very slippery. Rain on snow does that - then wandered around town. Stopped for a drink.
Met up with a friend the next morning who took me to one of the museums - Tromsø University Museum which has a strong emphasis on the Sami culture as well as natural history and geology exhibits. Then had sushi. Very nice. Quite unusual; I think this was a platter of more experimental flavours. Went to tourist office and thought I'd book a couple of excursions but computers were down.
Short days are really throwing me off. There's no sun until January. It does start to get light at 11:00 or so and there's a couple of hours of day but by 2pm it's night time. Feels much later than it is.
