Svalbard Travel Blogs

After a good night sleep despite the all night sunshine, I woke up around 7am on the archipelago of Svalbard at 78◦ N in the world. Longyearbyen, the town me and Olga are staying in, is located on the main island of Svalbard, which is called Spitsbergen. The archipelago is governed by Norway and …

26th June: I left home after a fantastic 4 weeks catching up with everyone. It really was one of the best few weeks I’ve had at home in years, probably because so many people are sewing roots back home in Sunny Norn Iron. You all know who you are!! Cheers all for making me now want to sew routes …

Svalbard, baby;)

Jan Mayen is a volcanic island of norwegian dominion, located in the north atlantic ocean, 950km west of Norway, 600 km north of Iceland. Current crew is a total of 18, running the Loran-C navigation station, the meteorological station and maintaining the infrastructure - buildings, roads, airstrip…

3 weeks in Northern Norway - Tromsø and North Cape.. And then - an impulse decision: Svalbard - 78° N! After two weeks of rain, rain, rain we needed to experience something different. I love the arctic climate and nature - so why not spend a few days on Svalbard?! It was a great experience!!

8th July: The last evening in Virgohamna was fantastic. Once again we are so lucky with the weather at present. Anchor up again and on the move, the plan being a passage to Woodfjorden which is on the north coast of Spitsbergen. This was to be the most memorable day of the trip by far. Everyone …

Greetings from the Artics-Norway                       (Longyearbyen,Svalbarfd)-                   &nbs…

Village de Longyearbyen, ile de Spitsbergen, archipelle de Svalbard.  Latitude: 78.16 degres nord.  Longitude: rien a foutre.  Difficile d'etre dans un endroit lpus isole dur la planete.  Et c'est exactement ou j'ai decide d'aller.  Pourquoi?  Ceux qui me con…

Many maaaany years ago, the island of Svalbard used to be down by the equator, but it has constantly moved north. And it is still moving towards the north pole. But because it used to be located further south, one can find lots of plant fossils under the glaciers. So if you go up to where the glaci…

Spitsbergen (Svalbard) 2006

Svalbard was my dream destination since I came to Norway 12 years ago. Finally I decided to visit it on my last year. I knew if I don't do it before I leave to Slovakia, it would be hard to come back. Travelling up there is not the cheapest thing...I still had some SAS bonus left, so at the end I t…

Well where do i start i left NZ to work on the most famous ocean liner in the world "QE2", i worked as a sales assistant.. which was "sweet as" we only opened at sea, so every country we went to i got to see! IN FACT this was the best 6mnths of my LIFE onboard this beautful old ship!! i met thousands of people, i saw many countrys and drank most nights! there were partys like u have never seen b4!!

Blog and photos can be found by clicking on this link - http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/56671/Arrival-Svalbard-2 http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/56671/Hiking-over-Foxfonna-glacier-via-3 and http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/56671/Around-Longyearbyen-5