Staying on board the Ship in the Ice is an out-of-this-world experience. The 1912 schooner is frozen into the ice for just a few months each year, making it the world’s only icebound hotel. Situated in the Arctic circle, in Spitsbergen, you can only reach it by a long snowmobile or husky sled journey. It…
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Life at the top of the world: Spitsbergen
The moment when your pilot says ‘It is currently -25 degrees Celsius outside’ as you come in to land, doesn’t do much to actually prepare you for just how bone-numbingly cold this is. Stepping out of the terminal building in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen was quite a shock to the system. But not just because of the…
No need to ask which way is North!
A sign post greeting you upon arrival in Spitsbergen, Svalbard, helpfully reminds you know you are about as far North as you can be! This was on a blisteringly cold -37 degree celcius day! Oh, and watch out for polar bears…
The ramblings of Rebecca 