Alta.........? Nope! Tromso and a Cable Car

About 10 minutes after I finished the last blog post, it was announced that the ship needed to undergo further inspection.  Therefore we were to dock into Tromso whilst the Norwegian Authorities did whatever it was they needed to do.

So all change then.

The shore excursion team had to suddenly rearrange everything for that day, and suddenly 3-4 tours in Alta became 3-4 tours in Tromso and Peter and I were escorting. 

Our tour took in the Tromso museum, a drive around the city and then up onto one of the nearby mountains, Storsteinen, by cable car.

Our tour guide called himself "The Black Viking", and was very entertaining.  At the museum I discovered that the Norwegians did what many of our nations have done, and persecuted the native people of the country.  In Norway's case, it was the Laplanders, who are actually known as Sami.

Due to the fact we started what was a morning tour in the afternoon, by the time we reached the cable car station, it was dark.  What a fantastic view!

Tommorrow we're in Honningsvag, where Peter and I are due to escort on coaches heading for the North Cape, the most northern point in Europe. I'm really looking forward to that one.