Tuesday 2 August - Tromso

We are finally on board our APT ship with about 100 other passengers. We all have lovely spacious cabins & are very blessed to be sailing through the most amazing scenery of green covered mountains, some snow capped, with steep slopes that run down to the sea - maybe with a little room for quaint villages of wooden houses with very slopey roofs for the snow to run off. It is almost 10pm & the sun is shining! 

We flew into Tromso about midday (all luggage arrived too!!) & had a few hours to look around this arctic town before we boarded the ship. We have on board as crew, people with PhDs in marine biology, geology, history & one that specialises in birds.  They will all be spending time with us on the tours ashore - they call this an "expedition". A number of these crew have spent time in Antartica. Should be lots of fun & very interesting - like doing a big field trip. Holly & Emily would love it. 

Amazingly Jim & Fi met up with 2 couples they travelled with on a previous tour & are thrilled to see them again.

We are not sure whether the blogs will publish as we only have patchy satellite wifi on the ship so don't be worried if you don't hear from us as frequently as before.

(Tried with just 2 photos, but it didn' go - so had to delete them.)