Five hundred kilometres short of the Arctic Circle is our destination. From Notts we take a midnight bus to Standsted, an early morning flight to Oslo Rygge, a 110 km train ride from Oslo Rygge to Oslo Gardermoen, a one hour domestic flight, a bus to the city centre and then, almost 17 hours after we started our adventure, we arrive in the Norweigan city of Alesund. Latitude: Sixty-two degrees north. The best news (other than the fact that we’re now closer to either pole than we have ever been) is that we’ve still got one hour left before the stalls of Alesund’s 26th annual Norwegian food festival closes for the day! The displays start out as you would expect at a festival like this with dairy produce, various salamis, coffee stalls etc. before we stumble
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