Category: Northern Dark 2024
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A day of two halves
I did a last-minute check of the flight bookings just before leaving Sydney, and was disturbed to discover that the booking reference for the return flight from Svalbard to Tromsø was giving an error. I didn’t have time to investigate then, resolving to figure it out as soon as we were settled in Berlin. Today…
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Sightseeing Mitte
(Very) slow start to the day today: slept in until what turned out to be about 9AM: it was still dark as the inside of a cow. Strange: sunrise should have happened around 7:30. Is it that dark from clouds? No – it transpires that the hotel has a system of storm shutters which serve…
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Made it to Berlin
Plane to Singapore, plane to London, bus to Terminal 5 Heathrow, (bonus bag searches for both of us at security made us wonder if we’d make our connection, but we did) plane to BER, FEX (fast) train to just outside town (thanks to the nice lady who helped us buy tickets quickly as the train…
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Northern Lights – second approach – clock ticking
Checking that this thing still works. Seems to. The block editor thing is new, but appears to work. If you look down towards the bottom of the Adventures page, you’ll see one called “Northern Lights”, almost exactly ten years ago. We’re not going to exactly retrace those steps, but we’ll be visiting a couple of…