Svalbard – the black mountains It took me half a day to figure out what was 'wrong' in Svalbard – obviously it is a desolated mountain kingdom, but it is black, barren mountains – crna gora of the north – Birgitte put words on the missing pjeces – not a tree, not a bush – nothingness. Black, gray, white. And no life – except 8 species of birds, and supposedly a polar bear somewhere out there. How did we end up here? I don't know – probably because it is there and you can get there for your bonus points as it counts as domestic Norway. It is a close to the North Pole as I'll ever get, 78 degrees north, Longyearbyen. SAS had in June 'half bonus price' for all of Scandinavia, so we travelled
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