Ok, welcome to the Polar Circle… Rain, wet snow, sleet, hail, gale – you have it all within 10 min Sunshine is not in the list – it’s supposed to be delivered later and tomorrow…

As it was tremendously windy (all the time 40 – 120 km/h wind speed) it’s really choppy out there

and the spray is flying low

So what else can you do than enjoy life with nice food. Being here this means “reker” (shrimps…)

No – don’t look into the camera; enjoy the food

A nice wrap

The silent remains of the feast

In general we were quite lucky as there is an amazing Asia store in town so we could stack up some real nice supplies and have a lovely brunch…

Green mango salad, warm beef salad, fried rice, cold rice salad, …

Getting out in this weather is more a question of driving around as you are simply soaked within minutes if you try to hike

Snow is blowing horizontally

This is the downside when you want to do nice pictures… Wade through snow…

The colours are just nice

Very efficient snow clearing…

Ursi is having some fun (and getting warm) while I shoot

Looks like a postcard from the freezer In principle the beach might be nice, but swimming… Actually the water is quite warm (ok, things are relative) – we would guess around 8-9° which explains as well (Gulf current…) why it’s so warm here despite the latitude we are at.

barren land

Winter is going away

But it will take some time still

Another fun act…

Which causes snow in your socks as well

A bay on the island next to Tromso (Kvaloy)

Now as a panorama (made out of 6 images)

Bad hair day (no just strong wind…)

rugged wildlife

sometime it will be green again

brrr….

It’s getting evening

the clams are really magnificent here

Goodbye to the bay

Another bay with near perfect slopes very late

And our final finding