Tag: aurora
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Weather forecast grim for guided photo excursion
We woke on Wednesday and the forecast on my phone and laptop (Google and Apple have slightly different views of these things: it’s worthwhile to check both) concurred that while the morning would be clear, a snow storm was coming in for the afternoon. This boded ill for the aurora photography excursion that we had…
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A bit cloudier, weaker aurora (pink!)
Tuesday we had a lazy morning, nearly missing breakfast. Probably a result of sleeping well after getting very cold down by the lake the night before. Sat around catching up on the internet and relaxing. It was pretty overcast, so the views were more monochrome than on Monday, but we each went out for walks…
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Blue sky day in Abisko
The first full day at Abisko the weather was lovely. After a leisurely breakfast (and the writing of the previous post) we rugged ourselves up to go for a walk down to the lake (about 15 minutes if you were in a hurry, but we weren’t). First we walked up the hill behind the lodge…
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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…
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Spot of Aurora photography last night
The forecast was for a clear night and strong-ish aurora activity, so we booked the last couple of seats on an aurora-spotting service that would take us to a good viewing spot away from the lights of the city. Downside of last minute preparations was that the pick-up time was earlier than we had hoped,…