Pub selfie
Felton, Bristol.
We had a nice steak dinner in the pub down the road ... the Fox and Goose. I highly recommend it ...
The next morning we should have flown out to Tromso from Bristol Airport at 09:40. But when we awoke to thick fog, I thought that things did not look good.
At about 12:00 we were put on a bus and taken to Bournemouth Airport, where our plane was ready to fly. It was about 15:15 when we finally set off. It is about 3 hours and 30 minutes to Tromso.
The entire plane was chartered for people boarding the same Hurtigruten ship, which was due to sail at 18:30. Hurtigruten has a strict policy, that if passengers fail to turn up on time, the ship sails without them.
But the captain on the flight spoke very nicely to the captain on MS Trollfjord, and explained the problem ... and I guess everyone realized that reimbursing 140 or so passengers for a holiday that didn't happen through no fault of their own would prove costly. And would give the company a bad name. So the captain very kindly held departure until we arrived ... some 4 or 5 hours late.
Pub selfie
Felton, Bristol.
We had a nice steak dinner in the pub down the road ... the Fox and Goose. I highly recommend it ...
The next morning we should have flown out to Tromso from Bristol Airport at 09:40. But when we awoke to thick fog, I thought that things did not look good.
At about 12:00 we were put on a bus and taken to Bournemouth Airport, where our plane was ready to fly. It was about 15:15 when we finally set off. It is about 3 hours and 30 minutes to Tromso.
The entire plane was chartered for people boarding the same Hurtigruten ship, which was due to sail at 18:30. Hurtigruten has a strict policy, that if passengers fail to turn up on time, the ship sails without them.
But the captain on the flight spoke very nicely to the captain on MS Trollfjord, and explained the problem ... and I guess everyone realized that reimbursing 140 or so passengers for a holiday that didn't happen through no fault of their own would prove costly. And would give the company a bad name. So the captain very kindly held departure until we arrived ... some 4 or 5 hours late.