Monthly Archives: March 2024

As we approached the end of our Northern Lights Cruise we were supposed to have two sea days south to Bergen where we would disembark and head home. We left Alta at midnight and when we woke it looked like … Continue reading →

Alta is about equidistant between the North Pole and Berlin.  The area around Alta held the Nazi’s largest naval base outside of Germany during World War II.  Many thousands of German soldiers were in Alta.   There was even a … Continue reading →

On board the Viking Venus, we had signed up for a phone alert for when the crew see the lights during the night. Some people got the alert at 4:00 a.m. but we had not.  We had been fortunate enough … Continue reading →