Day 1 - Tromsø (photos), Day 2 - NordKapp (photos)

This is an update with photos! Currently we're in Kirkenes and I finally have some decent internet speeds. We're at the Rica Arctic hotel. Anyway here they are.

Day 1 was in Tromsø. Spent most of the time exploring around. There was a lot of pee and poo spots everywhere. Surprisingly. Things are also pretty expensive here. But we got some food (popcorn, chips, some soft drink, vodka, bread, cheese spread) to take on board the ship anyway. We boarded the ship at around 2:30pm, dropped off our luggage then went exploring.

The church along the main street.

Our boat.  It's pretty cool to be on one until you get the motion sickness.

I took a photo while shopping for groceries.  It's about 3.60 Australian dollars for 500mls of orange juice!

Monument in downtown Tromsø.

Downtown Tromsø.

The harbour. Tromsø is an island surrounded by fjords.

We saw some Northern Lights that night but taking photos was in vain.

Day 2 was in Nordkapp, the northern most point of Europe. The boat dropped us at the Honningsvåg port then we caught a bus to Nordkapp. There were a lot of people on the bus, 6 in total, consisting of Germans, French, English, etc. Each bus had its own language guide. The road was also unaccessible, a snow plouger had to clear the road for us otherwise there was no way to get up there.  Before Nordkapp we took a tour of the ship's bridge.

South park style computer panel.

Ship captain and I.

Norwegian coastline on the way to Honningsvåg.

Shell station located exactly at 71 degrees longitude north, that's what makes it special.  Took this from the bus.  Someone's big head was in the way.

One of the arrows pointing to the North Cape structure.

At the North Cape structure.  Had to wait for everyone to get on board the bus before we could get decent photos.  The weather also cleared up at the end which was good.

Water merging into clouds, how cool is that?

This is a structure at Honningsvåg.  We boarded the ship en route to Kirkenes.

The same night after dinner we caught a spectacular display of northern lights on the ship's bridge.  Couldn't get any photos though it was very dark and a lot of people were moving along the aisle but it was still something very special to remember.