Hurtigruten; Friday, 04 May, 2018

Breakfast and then shortly afterwards we reached the Arctic Circle – marked by a globe on an island, the southern extend of midnight sun and from here south there is always day and night.

First stop after the circle was Nesna and then a couple of hours later Sandnessjøen before lunch.

After lunch we sailed into Brønnøysund for an hours stop so I got off and had a wander around town for a little while.

A little while after leaving Brønnøysund we passed the Torghatten, a not particularly tall mountain, but spectacular for having a whole all the way through it halfway up the face – it makes for a very weird site and brought most people out onto deck to watch.

Dinner tonight was a special celebration meal – partly for the 125th anniversary of the Hurtigruten, but also as a lot of passengers were leaving at Trondheim the following morning, an end of cruise dinner.

For the people on the early sitting dinner started at 17:30 and was conducted through some pretty choppy waters. Thankfully we were on the later sitting at 20:00 and most of the meal was conducted whilst the ship was in port in Rørvik.

After dinner we had a quick drink in the bar before tactically turning in for the night a short while before the ship entered some more rough open sea.