The Gateway to the Arctic

Tonight the Tartan Eagles are in Tromsø (home of Lene Marlin and Röyksopp) after yet another beautiful drive northward!  At 70° N latitude, Tromsø is often referred to as “The Gateway to the Arctic.” Similar to the last couple of days, there are mountains of snow surrounding us but the roads are still completely clear and perfect for driving! Today’s drive involved a ferry ride and numerous crossings of concrete and wire suspension bridges.

We arrived in Tromsø early enough to take a stroll around the lovely town and to enjoy the arctic sunset, which started two hours ago and is still happening right now. We window shopped lots of lovely, expensive things and bought some groceries to make ourselves dinner in the lovely wooden cabin in which we will be sleeping tonight.
Whilst in town we got a call from one of the other ralleyers to say that another one of our crew had been stopped by the Norwegian police. Apparently they had been driving 90kph on a 60kph road. Norway has the strictest driving laws in Europe where speeding is concerned and as their limits are ridiculously low, it’s difficult not to do some speeding.
Tomorrow we are heading to the most northern point of our trip, and of Europe. We are unsure where we will be sleeping yet but we have a long drive to work that out….