Day 7: Tromso
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nwhikerThe day started out with a bit of a bust: the previous afternoon, we'd booked a bus tour of the fjords ourselves. We hadn't been sure we'd be up for it when we planned the trip, since we wanted to prioritize being awake in the evenings, but we figured we could do it so we went online, found a decently rated tour and booked it.
Well... turns out, the tour wasn't for real. Or rather, they only do it during spring and summer, but their booking system lets you book it anyhow. Grrr. Had we known, we'd have looked for something else! The tour place did have a boat fjord trip going on, but since we already had a boat trip that evening, and the boat looked very very full, we declined. The other group that had also booked the phantom bus tour did decide to take the boat tour.
It was Sami week in Tromso, which meant there were reindeer races. Since we hadn't thought we'd be there, we hadn't bother to plan to see them, but while we missed the races, we were able to see a few of the reindeer, which was terribly cute, and much smaller than I expected.
So it was another lazy day. We spent some time confirming flights and trying to see if we could check our luggage through to Reykjavik from Tromso -we couldn't- hoping to avoid having to pick it up in Oslo and check it again. Ah well. And we had to deal with T-Mobile. We had international. We made about 26 minutes of international calls, which should be billed at 25 cents a minute. They texted both of us to tell us send us an "excessive usage warning", saying that if we didn't do something -what was never specified- we might lose access entirely. So yay for spending an hour on the phone trying to tell them that no, we hadn't made $164.25 worth of international calls at $0.25 per minute! That's... lots of hours. Situation still isn't resolved, I need to check on things next week, but last we chatted with them, they too were unable to find all those calls they were billing us for. WhatEVER.
That evening, we had a Northern Lights cruise booked. The boat. OMG, gorgeous. Stella Oceana. It was a small group, only 12 people, so a lot more intense than I usually go for, but it was a nice evening and...
We got to see the Northern Lights again. A spectacular arc over the sky. Even our wide angle lens couldn't catch the whole thing but man, it was bright and gorgeous.
Got back at a bit past midnight, iirc, it was truly magical. And hey, I didn't get seasick!
Well... turns out, the tour wasn't for real. Or rather, they only do it during spring and summer, but their booking system lets you book it anyhow. Grrr. Had we known, we'd have looked for something else! The tour place did have a boat fjord trip going on, but since we already had a boat trip that evening, and the boat looked very very full, we declined. The other group that had also booked the phantom bus tour did decide to take the boat tour.
It was Sami week in Tromso, which meant there were reindeer races. Since we hadn't thought we'd be there, we hadn't bother to plan to see them, but while we missed the races, we were able to see a few of the reindeer, which was terribly cute, and much smaller than I expected.
So it was another lazy day. We spent some time confirming flights and trying to see if we could check our luggage through to Reykjavik from Tromso -we couldn't- hoping to avoid having to pick it up in Oslo and check it again. Ah well. And we had to deal with T-Mobile. We had international. We made about 26 minutes of international calls, which should be billed at 25 cents a minute. They texted both of us to tell us send us an "excessive usage warning", saying that if we didn't do something -what was never specified- we might lose access entirely. So yay for spending an hour on the phone trying to tell them that no, we hadn't made $164.25 worth of international calls at $0.25 per minute! That's... lots of hours. Situation still isn't resolved, I need to check on things next week, but last we chatted with them, they too were unable to find all those calls they were billing us for. WhatEVER.
That evening, we had a Northern Lights cruise booked. The boat. OMG, gorgeous. Stella Oceana. It was a small group, only 12 people, so a lot more intense than I usually go for, but it was a nice evening and...
We got to see the Northern Lights again. A spectacular arc over the sky. Even our wide angle lens couldn't catch the whole thing but man, it was bright and gorgeous.
Got back at a bit past midnight, iirc, it was truly magical. And hey, I didn't get seasick!
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