During our entire eight day trip to Norway, we only ate at three restaurants for a total of three meals. Everything was either closed, insanely overpriced, or unappealing. That means we lived off of snacks and were starving the majority of the time. We devoured our meals on the Hurtigruten, and Pepe’s Pizza at the airport filled a very...
We traveled to Norway with one purpose in mind, and that was to see the Northern Lights.
Hurtigruten Review with Kids: MS Kong Harald
Northern Lights Cruise
When we first started planning, the first result that popped up in Google was for the Hurtigruten Northern Lights Cruise.
The advertisements for the Hurtigruten were compelling, enticing, and romantic.
We were desperate to see...
Nothing happened according to plan this trip to Norway. And I mean that in the most literal sense. When we arrived at the Scandic Hotel, chosen because of how often we’d seen it pop up in search results in Google and we just wanted a sure thing, it was early in the morning after our Hurtigruten cruise. We couldn’t...
We found ourselves in Kirkenes after debarking from our two night cruise on the Hurtigruten. Kirkenes is a tiny little town of only 3,000 inhabitants on just over 500 acres, and was upgraded from a village just 20 years ago! The peninsula is sandwiched between the Bøkfjorden fjord, and the Varangerfjord fjord that borders Russia, and the city is...
Long Beach Airport, in California, is the smallest airport I’ve ever seen but it looks positively palatial compared to Kirkenes, Norway. KKN Airport, located just 9 miles outside the city, can be seen in its entirety from the front gates.
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Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen (KKN)
Kirkenes, Norway
Phone: +47 67 03 53 00
Curfew: Monday - Friday 23:00-04:30, Saturday 15:00-06:30, Sunday 23:00-08:00
The...
Scandinavian Airlines, SAS Airlines, flies throughout Denmark, Sweden and Norway to 1300 destinations all across Europe. Their slogan, “We Are Travelers” is fitting as Scandinavians travel an average of five times a year throughout the three countries listed above! It was also fitting for our particular family as we are not only travelers, but have Scandinavian ancestry. Everything comes...
