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Same song, second verse……. We’re now on our 6th of 4 days in Ilulissat, Greenland. Yes, you’re reading the numbers correctly. Similar to yesterday we were up at 5:45 am, leaving for the airport at 7:20 am. Which turned into 7:50 am as the flight coming in from Nuuk would be late. Our group headed for the airport, checked in, and waited for our incoming flight...
Ilulissat, Day 5 of 4. Let’s once again talk about today’s flight to Nuuk, that was moved up as of last night due to bad weather in Nuuk. We were up at 5:45 am with a 7:20 am departure time to the airport. The shuttle was late, which wasn’t an issue as we were about 5 minutes away from the airport with time to spare. Everyone checked in with Air Greenland, prepared...
Monday? We’ve been gone for seven days already?! We were up numerous times during the night hoping to see the Northern Lights, but to no avail. Thankfully this was our ‘late day’ so sleeping in was an option. Our first scheduled event wasn’t until 1:45 pm so we slept in and ate breakfast late. Which was much to our advantage. One of our travel mates was looking to go...
Our day started at 12:19 am when those five magical words were uttered – “The Northern Lights are visible!”. In 11 minutes, we threw on our outdoor clothes, gathered camera equipment, and found a spot away from light to take pics and enjoy the show. Take note that “outdoor clothes” doesn’t say “we layered using our warmest clothing”, which we felt after about 7...
WHAT. A. DAY. (So this will likely be a long post.). Noteworthy is that we saw zero Northern Lights overnight. It was cloudy when we turned in, there were a few visible stars around midnight, and the Big Dipper was visible around 5 am. A couple travel mates were up at 2 am and were lucky enough to have seen the lights. The day started with a walking tour of the town...
Hello from Kangerlussuaq! Waking up at 7, with the morning light glowing in around all the edges of the curtains, we were sure that when throwing back the curtains we would see the sunrise over the runway. But it was dark….like pitch dark! Oh wait, that light around the curtain was a large airport light outside our window. One plus to staying at the airport, well...
We spent this morning strolling about on a blustery morning, so windy that the flags were flapping straight out! Our first destination was to find the Metro station, just scoping it out for our two days in Copenhagen next week. It almost seems out of place, but it’s tucked into a residential area so well that it’s nearly overlooked. The next destination wasn’t really...
Another trip, another story to tell! When we initially started our travel blog we said “yeah, let’s call the day we depart Day 0 as there’s nothing to report”. And the past few trips have proved otherwise, so we’re starting with Day 1 – the day we left KC. We had an afternoon flight, which is such a treat! The other treat was that we had one layover. ONE layover to...
We headed to Helsinki, Finland this morning, which is the fourth and final country on our agenda. This trip necessitated taking a ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki, roughly a 2 – 1/2 ferry ride. When we say ferry, it wasn’t the type of ferry you might cross the mighty Mississippi on. It’s the size of a small cruise ship and has amenities onboard such as duty...
(Fair warning, this will be a long post with a lot of pictures… there was a lot to see today.) Our time on Saaremaa ended this morning and we headed for Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. We again had to take the ferry, which is thankfully only a 20 minute ride. Once we arrived in Tallinn, we hit the ground running, which seems to be the only way we know how to...