After Trondheim we headed back to Oslo with the plan to spend 2 nights and one more day there before heading home. We had seen a lot of what we wanted in Oslo in the first few days of the trip, but one thing left on the agenda was the Munch Museum—one of, if not..

So the journey south on the Havila Castor ended in Trondheim, where we docked at the ungodly early hour (for Tom) of 6:30 am. Fortunately, it was a longer port call and, while we had to check out, we didn’t actually have to leave the ship until about 9:30 am. Yum - one more delicious..

This is going to be short one to describe the Havila Castor—the ship we took from Tromso to Trondheim. We boarded at around midnight so our goal after a long day was just to get to our cabin and get some sleep. As budget travelers, we booked a small interior room with the thought that..

Cold, windy and rainy Tromso was our next stop. We had scheduled a Northern Lights boat tour for the night of our arrival, but as mentioned in our last post, it was cancelled due to poor conditions and cloud cover - a bit of a bummer, but glad they canceled it instead of sending us..

Today is another travel day—Bergen to Tromso this time. Looking out of the plane’s window, much of the highlands are already quite snowy with the dark channels of the fjords cutting their way back into the interior. Since we left Oslo, we’ve taken a train (two, in fact) to Flam, a boat to Gudvangen, a..