My cruise

It's proper cold at those latitudes by December so take some good gear for ever going outside

I couldn't even go out on deck as a skinny 20 year old in Canada, everything just stopped working and I was cold to the bone in minutes. We got out in early Dec just before the St Lawrence froze up solid

Never saw the Northern lights at sea. Missed it so far in the UK too, even that night they could see it in Aberdeen and Newcastle I never saw a sausage out late with pooch

Are you sure it wasn't returning from the pub Noel.

Bill D.

Ian

You might find this review of a ‘Northern Lights’ cruise of interest:

Webpage : **LINK**

and YouTube video: **LINK**

I have visited Norway on a few cruises but in the summer / autumn, so the weather was not that cold. The most northern one was round Nordkapp to the port of Honningsvag.

Stuart

Oldiron, I think the picture of the Roman galley is a bit romanticised. As far as I know the rowers were all slaves, chained in place and never left their positions until death. They ate, slept and defaecated in situ - bad luck if you were on the bottom row of a 3-row trireme.

Chas

No Bill ! If my memory serves me right it must have been summer as it was about 9:30PM, at Thornham, on the coast, having observed the sight I entered the pub and told those there to go outside and see. There was no doubt that it was one of those rare occasions when the northern lights come this far south. THEN I had a beer ! Noel.