Monday morning was filled with xmas shopping and eating mostly. I managed to not miss breakfast today and went walking around Tromsø looking for gifts. All I had to find was a blues bottle slide, a book on tractors and chocolate. Strangely difficult considering it was xmas season.
But the weather turned good and I decided I would do it on the way home and jumped on the bus to the Cable car up Fjellheisen. Once I got to the top of the 4 minute car ride of 420m to the top station I head upto towards Tromsdalstinden the highest peak in the area visible from the city.
The summit offers incredible views with mountains and Fjord’s everywhere you look with the city resting below.
And just for Intrepid team.
heading back down it started getting dark quick and lot colder (well colder that -11deg). The cable cars are old and only hold 27 people so it was a wait to get down, but I met some people from London to have a hot beverage with.
All most killing myself on the icy roads I managed to walk to the Cathedral to get a few photos. It was the only time a saw a bus slide to a stop on the ice, just before I got on it, eek!
Finished off my shopping and caught dinner back at the hotel. I ended up buying a 24 hour pass so I headed back to the cable car about 10pm to try for some more Aurora shots but when I got there the clouds rolled in and it wasn’t worth the 25NZD cable car ticket.
Day 55
Back to Oslo. Not realising that the bus only goes every hour I had to grab an expensive taxi to the Airport, at least it was a nice modern Volvo.
But the Airport still had some amazing views.
With a Taxi, then plane, then train to Mjondalen by the time I got back I pretty much went straight to sleep after dinner.
Just a note, almost all the photos in these posts are in the middle of the day! The sun in Tromsø never breaks the horizon, this is as bright as it gets. And I realised that Sunday was the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. So I was on top of the world when it was the darkest day, pretty cool shit.
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