Written by Jane Critchley (A highly commended runner-up entry in the Travel and Water Writing Competition.) My first lasting impression of Norway featured enormous, orange flowering jellyfish in Stavanger harbour. My second was MS Lofoten. Now the oldest of the Hurtigruten fleet, except at the time, 1968, it was pretty young, maybe only four years […]
Written by Julie Hall (A highly commended runner-up entry in the Travel and Water Writing Competition.) From the first moment of my arrival in Bergen, Norway, I had been struck by the sheer beauty of the landscape: the rugged mountains, the network of clean rivers, and the architecture of the Old Harbour area. Add to […]
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A Trip up the North Norwegian Coast with an ‘Older Clientele’
Written by Sally Moir (A Runner-up entry in the Travel for Seniors Writing Competition.) ‘Have I arrived at my final destination? The Old People’s Home?’ was my first thought when we arrived aboard a Hurtigruten ship called the Finnmarken. It is a part cargo, part passenger boat that delivers and collects both goods and people at […]