Hiorthhamn

They are ready for a trip. When you're first on the boat you can be quite sure you'll be with.

Hiorthhamn is on the opposite side of Adventfjorden, you can see Longyearbyen on the other side of fjord. Mountains avens were flowering beautifully.

There need to be done something when a survival suit is leaking. It's not that fun to get wet. Plastic bags are holding clothes dry under the survival suit. This is maybe not to safest way to cope with a leaking survival suit, but at least it holds your clothes dry - for a while anyhow.

When a dog is looking like that after a tour, it has been a good tour.

The world where wool rules

The first thing when we arrived in Longyearbyen after our holiday was to find my thin woollen underwear I'm using in summertime. I'm really rarely giving up for my comfortable and cool summerwool!

It was time to be back in "reality" - in Arctic summer. My home is there where my wool is.

The Island of Aphorite

This year we decided to do something totally different on our holiday. We wanted to see some palms!

I'm not too keen on crowded places so we spend a good time looking for a nice little bit smaller place. We found a really nice one on suiting nicely our purpose for a romantic holiday.

One reason we selected that hotel was that they were having a really good training program. We were joining water aerobic, core, crosstraining, pilates and tried even yoga. Now a holiday beside the beaches started to sound kind of interesting. We were having lot of fun - and we were getting better on our Swedish as well. Strangely enough the language we were using mostly at the hotell wasn't English and definitely not Greek but Swedish. But that was actually ok because Swedish isn't that much different from Norwegian.

I got also a change to try scuba diving. I wouldn't ever believe there is kind of aquarium fishes in Mediterranean sea. This picture is taken by the instructor.

My partner isn't that keen on water sports but there is a proof he has touched salty water as well.

We were also having a trip to see little bit around our beautiful island.

Summer in Trondheim

We got the first touch of summer in Tromsø. When we got out of the airplane I looked surprised around: "Oh, look, trees are already getting green". My partner wasn't that impressed. He was thinking it's pretty normal that trees are green in the middle of June...

We started our holiday with spending a long weekend in Trondheim. In Svalbard it's easy to forget how summer is in the mainland, but we got a good taste of it in Trondheim. It's a nice town to visit and it's even better when we can meet our good friends there.