Weather here is amazing - clear skies, sunshine, light breeze and it feels about 5 degrees at the most outside. We are finding the contrast between inside and outside a challenge as all the buildings are so well heated that the moment you go inside you feel an overwhelming urge to strip off. Quite a contrast to home where the increasing electricity prices mean we just put on extra layers when it gets cold!
Longyearbyen seems to be focussed very much on tourism - there's a wide variety of shops including two specialist sports shops.
It seems it's history included a coal mining operation - half way up the side of the glacial valley. Guess it saved some work exposing the coal layers!
As we're now in the land of the midnight sun there isn't a lot of dark at night so thank goodness for the heavy duty curtains in the hotel window. We stayed at the Radisson Blu Polar Hotel last night - very nice, and the breakfast this morning was amazing.
We went for a pre-breakfast walk up the valley this morning and were lucky enough to see 2 reindeers grazing happily near the road - they didn't seem bothered by us.
Signing off for now - 13 days on the boat without internet access - how will we cope????
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