Monday 27th February 2017

During the night we traveled through the Lofoten and Vesteralen Islands docking early this morning at Harstad. Later we docked briefly at Finnsnes pictured here.

It is a beautiful day with fine views in all directions.

Leaving Finnsnes we passed under this bridge. 

It's very cold here even when you're in the sun. Ann got well kitted up to go on deck!

As we were leaving Finnsnes a fast coastal boat was just arriving.

At about 14.15 we docked in the city of Tromso - variously known as The Capital of the Arctic or The Paris of the North!

It seems like Tromso has two cathedrals, an old wooden one................

...........and a new concrete one.

We went inside the old wooden one, it was really quite austere compared to the churches of southern Europe which we had recently visited.

What is this about?

A little further on we saw this brightly coloured building on the quayside.

Just a little further on again was this really, really strange building. It's called The Polaria. It is not falling down. It is supposed to be like that!

There is lots of snow in Tromso today. It gets piled up by the authorities to enable people to get about.

I'm sure they have real wild bears around here.

Our ship's funnel can be seen poking up above the surrounding buildings making it easy to find our way back.