Finally, another trip to another part of the world.
At the airport, we had to show our passport, we were leaving the Schengen area. So, yeah, three hours straight to the north. Far away. The flight over the southern part of Svalbard was beautiful, mountains, snow, glaciers.
Already months before, I tried to find a couch surfing host for us, but nobody wanted to have us. So we booked the 'cheapest' hostel/guesthouse, so at least we knew for sure we didn't have to sleep under a bridge. Shortly after we arrived, however, after we had paid for everything, one of many many requests was answered, we could stay. Whatever.
The city - the 'northernmost city of the world' - has about 2000 residents, the whole island about 2500. There are more skidoos than people, and more polar bears than skidoos. Maybe we will see one in the next 5 days.
One (or several?) of those residents seem to be professional photographers who just sat down in a restaurant, where we allowed ourselves to eat a reindeer burger, after long consideration. And he just put a camera there which costs maybe 30.000 USD. He probably saw all the wildlife of the island..
We walked around in Longyear 'downtown', and within 2 hours we saw already most of the city, went to the beach, and are slowly starting to adapt to the occasional snow showers and the cool breeze from the glacier. We just came home from a walk to an abandoned mine - we would have guessed its around 19.00, but no, it was 22.30. The next night will be in Oslo again.
The weather around 10 in the afternoon (!) was a bit cloudy. At midnight we went outside for a walk, and - wow. Clear blue sky and warming sun at midnight.
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