First job of the day was to finish packing and quit our cabin. It had been home for the last 11 days, and had served us well.
As a basic cabin it wasn't the roomiest, but there was plenty of storage, a small en-suite shower room, and even a tv (with access to a range of satellite channels). Felt quite sad to leave . . .
Sad to be saying goodbye to the ship too - while not of the size or scale of a big cruise ship, it felt a good deal homier, and the public areas were still elegant enough.
We did have to make our own entertainment for the most part, but the tour director kept us amused with his stories, and calls for waving competitions with other passing Hurtigruten ships!
There was fine dining in the evening, and we even got a free glass of wine one night. (Didn't drink much otherwise - alcohol at Norwegian prices is not cheap!).
The buffets during the day were more than plentiful - lots of fish, yes, but plenty of other choices - pancakes for breakfast, and puddings galore . . .
There was always plenty to see on the ship / from the ship . . .
. . . whether we were flying the flag to say the ship was carrying the post, watching the forklift trucks unload this and that, or battling our way round the promenade deck in the wind and the snow.
And of course, there were the views . . .
All packed up then - our last day on deck, watching as we negotiated our way through a myriad of tiny islands on our way into Bergen - plenty more to see:
Before we knew it we were back in Bergen, disembarking, picking up our luggage and on our way to the airport for the flight home.
So would we do it again?
I think so, much more our style than the big cruise ship, and the scenery was something else. We got to see Norway in the snow, and the Northern Lights (which was the whole idea), and travel the length of the Norwegian coast (there and back again!):
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