Day 11 Friday 

We woke up this morning to the most glorious view. Our room is on the 8th floor of the Thon hotel with a panoramic view of the sea and fjord, it is just so beautiful. 

We had a leisurely morning wandering around the town and finding our bearings, we will be here 4 days. 

It is a busy fishing town that attracts a lot of tourists, it is the capital of the Lofoten islands. 

The snow is very deep and it is icy underfoot. 

At 8pm we went on a “Northern Lights Tour” It was just the two of us and our guide who was so knowledgeable. He picked us up from our hotel and we drove for an hour to a remote part of the islands where it was so dark with no light pollution. 

He was pleased because the Northern Lights were appearing in the sky, John and I couldn’t see them. He set up his camera on a tripod and took some time lapse photographs then we could see the fluorescent green across the sky. He took some of the both of us underneath the lights which he will email to us. 

After about half an hour they dispersed so he took us to another location where the lights were visible to the naked eye again. 

We got back to our hotel around midnight. The temperature was -5 degrees.