Normally when you embark a cruise you’ve got to make sure that you’ve packed your summer clothes for the beach and maybe some swimwear so that you can jump straight in the pool. That isn’t what happened on my last cruise though. When we embarked the ship I was hoping that I had remembered to pack enough pairs of thermal trousers and most importantly I hoped that I had packed enough seasickness pills.

On this cruise, I was heading up 1700 miles up into the arctic circle to the very top of Norway to try to find the ever mysterious Northern Lights. The place that I was cruising to is actually so far north that they have a continuous night for two months of the year where the sun never rises above the horizon. It’s safe to say that this wasn’t your regular cruise and that things didn’t always go smoothly. That’s an understatement.

I always thought that to see the northern lights you’d have to stand around for hours in the cold on a mountain or take a trip on a small postal boat so when I saw a mainstream cruise line that I recognised making the trip I knew that this was my chance. I’d heard that seeing the lights by ship was even better than on land, so I crossed my fingers as tightly as I could. I knew that there was a high chance that we wouldn’t see anything and that even if they did come out to play, I might not be able to capture them in a decent photo.

Checking in for the cruise was straightforward and as we embarked I started to wonder who else would be on a cruise line this. The cruise ship that I’d booked this cruise on was Fred Olsen’s Bolette and Fred Olsen are a traditional cruise line that tend to have an older-than-average passenger demographic.

I didn’t want to stand out being in my 20s but for me this cruise really was about the itinerary and if I liked the cruise line that would be a bonus. The cruise was 9 nights long so I really hoped that I would enjoy it, especially since our cruise had 4 sea days and I’d driven 330 miles to board the ship. I drove from the biggest cruise port in the UK may I add, all the way to the top of England to board this cruise.

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