Day 5 M/S Polarlys

September 14, 2009, Monday
Day 5 M/S Polarlys

We have crossed the Arctic Circle and are now below that latitude. We’ve each been given a certificate that says we’ve crossed the Arctic Circle. At least I think that is what it says, as it is in Norwegian!! The weather today is the best it has been since we left Kirkenes. We awoke in Trondheim this morning but didn’t do anything in the city. If we were going on this trip again, I would schedule a tour of Trondheim, because it is fairly large and has some things that might be nice to see. We however, felt that sleeping in until a decent hour was more important than touring another small Norwegian town!!

I am looking forward to getting to Bergen and getting off this ship. We crossed some open sea last night and once again we were bobbing around like a cork on the open sea. I was just sure that I was going to end up on the floor, having been thrown from my bed but somehow I managed to stay in bed. The really good news is that I didn’t get the seasickness again! Don just slept through the whole pitching and rolling business and is happy as a clam.

We were speaking with a German at lunch today and he said that Norwegians are really very wealthy people. He said that they have HUGE energy supplies and that the country has set up a fund for the people where the wealth is distributed to the people every year. Sounds to me just like what has happened in Alaska. He also said that Europeans generally do not like the wind chargers that we have seen all over Europe because they feel that the wind mills are blights on the landscape!! I guess they would prefer polluted air!