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  • Sunset falls

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    This morning was my fifth time on the black sands of Jökulsárlón and I gave up. I had a look at the beach and saw how little ice there was now, and I didn’t even bother to try. I went for a walk which turned out to be a good thing because it gave me…

  • My nemesis

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    I’m back in Iceland! This will be half the same trip that I did two years ago, but hopefully with completely different weather! But at least I’m better prepared now – I have enough warm clothes with me so I don’t have to freeze the whole week like I did the last time! There was…

  • Trondheim

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    I have a four-day weekend and as usual, my timing is off. But to lighten up a rainy day, I have a new car so I took it to Trondheim today, for no better reason than that I’ve never been there before. I ate a brunch at Ikea before driving to the city and then walked…

  • Gruvsjöfjället

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    I counted my ”60 toppar” peaks the other day and found to my astonishment that I already have 31 of them! And as of today, 32. I drove to Vauldalen just across the border and hiked to Gruvsjöfjället. It was a very easy hike because you can follow a road/quad trail almost to the top, and the altitude…

  • Pyramiden

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    Having gone to bed after midnight (and having had trouble falling asleep), it took me a moment to figure out what’s going on when our guide was outside shouting ”A big whale! A big whale!”. But we got up and there we were on deck at 3am, shooting the plumes of what turned out to…

  • Kongsfjorden

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    We spent the whole day in Kongsfjorden. Our first landing was also the first proper hike of the trip (if 2 km can be called proper), as we walked up a black-legged kittywake bird cliff. This was the first time I’ve seen any flowers in any significant numbers, and it was interesting to see how tiny…

  • Grey

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    We did an early landing to check out more ruins related to arctic expeditions in Mosselbukta. This is the place where Nordenskiöld had to spend the winter in 1872–1873. There was very little wind, but it was snowing, so it feels even more lucky to have had sunshine yesterday with the polar bears! Then we…

  • Polar bears!

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    This is it! We were woken up after 1am, they have spotted a polar bear!! So on with the warm clothes and get the camera, and out on deck to look at that one thing that I really came here for (but had half accepted that we wouldn’t see when I realised how little ice…

  • Walruses

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    During the night, we passed the northernmost point of Spitsbergen, which means that we were 80 degrees north! I missed that, not that there would have been anything to shoot there out on the sea in overcast weather anyway. We had anchored during the early hours of the morning and I got out on deck…

  • Exploration

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    The nice weather in Longyearbyen didn’t follow us on the way north, because the morning was rainy. Or snowy – wet snow. We did our first zodiak excursion (or landing, as it was officially called) after breakfast, and it was rough. The wind wasn’t all bad, but having that wet snow slammed in your face… yeah…