The Long drive to Havoysund

I’m writing this late as we were driving all day to get to the region of Nord Cape. We are currently in the capital city of Nord Cape – Havoysund. This was around a 6 hour drive with stops to get here through very cold conditions – the coldest we have ever seen (-38.9C), interestingly we passed the point where Fahrenheit is lower than Celsius as -38.9C is -38.0F. At this point when you are outside, one deep breath hurts and makes you want to cough, if you breathe in through your nose the hairs freeze (To give you some kind of idea). Its nearly impossible to be outside without a good coat and base layer, gloves, scarf and a hat (you always travel with a base layer and outer layer on your legs in these conditions). It still amazes me that people live in these condition – admittedly they don’t go out much.

We saw fjords, tundra and open expanse throughout – as we got towards the top of Europe the Arctic ocean started to show its hand and the wind picked up.

Once we got to our base in our trek to the plateau of the world we realised that nothing is open here past 4pm (We arrived at 6pm) and even thought the town is larger than I first thought it would be its very quiet.

We walked around for a while a found the only take away place open where we purchased some generic fast food, as Norway is so expensive this cost the group around £100 collectively; in comparison this would cost around £20 in London.

After this we head back to our good flat in the heart of the town and played around with camera settings and compared ISO’s on various cameras whilst talking about our mission tomorrow.

The mission equates to seeing the Arctic Plateau and sledding – a good plan, don’t you think?

This shows the window icing up in the inside – not the outside. It also shows out thermometer.

This shows the sun in setting over the Arctic Ocean in the Nord Cape region on the journey up.