Our first dinner with Hurtigruten.  We’re on for the 2nd seating at 8:10 pm.  Now we can find out, does reindeer taste like Christmas? Barely any greens on our plate… Is this Rudolph, or Sven from Frozen? Dinner was very interesting. We had a salad with some sort of white grain, which I liked a […]

After we got into our rooms we decided to explore the ship a little bit.  It didn’t take much time for us to do so, the ship isn’t that large.  As with other cruises the cruise card really is the only access you need for everything.  I’ll put more details on the ship and our […]

Wow, brown cheese, have you ever heard of it?  For breakfast today, we had a very unique cheese that we never knew existed. This “brown” cheese has a brown color similar to a light caramel.  The similarities to caramel don’t just end with the color.  The flavor itself has notes of caramel in every bite. […]

The Snow Hotel site where the Gamme Cabins are isn’t that far from Kirkenes, but its definitely not walking distance.  Kirkenes itself isn’t that large, so there’s not a lot of restaurants (from what little we saw).  So, because we plan our trips well, we packed a little something just in case we didn’t have […]

Yummo!  We can’t wait to dig our claws into those tasty crab!  Our guide Egil (pronounced Egg-il, an old Viking name) picked us up right next to the restaurant building.  He comes from a proud family that owns a reindeer company, going back 16 generations.  He recommends reindeer meet, which we have yet to try. […]

We crazy peas have connected to many flights with layovers in other countries.  Our layover in Oslo had a little unexpected extra step, but I guess it makes sense in hindsight. When we left Copenhagen, we were very careful to verify that the luggage tags we had listed KKN (Kirkenes) as the final destination.  However, […]

It’s no secret that we crazy peas love food. I talk about food in almost every post. We enjoy a variety of foods from around the world, and there isn’t much we haven’t tried if we have the opportunity to do so. On this trip however, we know ahead of time that our food experience […]

It’s time for us to take a vacation from the hot weather of California. Anyone who says maintaining and keeping a blog up to date is easy has obviously never tried it. I’ve gained a lot of respect for those who can keep writing posts every day. I still haven’t sorted through all of our […]