White Christmas
December 25th, 2016 , 14:07
Up earlyish this morning and definitely a white Christmas. Trying to remember if I’ve ever had a white Christmas and I don’t remember any. Bound to have been somewhere with snow before though. Of course it wouldn’t be Christmas without Slade and Merry Christmas Everybody. So I’m getting dressed and sure enough there’s a loud ‘It’s Christmas!’ Joe had put it on his phone and was playing it.
We docked at Kirkenes and headed out to the bus to go dog sledding. It was a large group so we were split into three groups of 20 and Joe and I were in the last group. It was based at the Snow Hotel, so we had a look inside (but didn’t get to the bar unfortunately) and then went over to see the reindeer (lovely white one), then to see the dogs and finally onto the sleds for a ride around. Very bumpy! But fun. We then had to hurry back onto the bus and back to the ship – so no time to stroll around for a look around. Maybe if we go again!
So Kirkenes is right at the Russian border. So close to the border that Joe got a ‘welcome to Russia’ text on his phone as it picked up a Russian cell tower.
Back onboard with loads of new people doing the southern journey. We’ll have a walk around Vardø around 4pm then do laundry. So an exciting end to Christmas day!
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