Today
we arrived in Svalbard. Here it has really become winter! We were in Magdalene
fjord this morning and it was very windy, cold and snowing. It was a bit
slipery as well on the landing site, so the landing was shorter than expected.
Passengers went back onboard after a little time on shore.
The
second place today was Ny-Ålesund. Here we really had a snowblizzard. Even deck
5 and 7 were covered in snow. Passengers did go out again, but unfortunately
most people came back a little cold and wet.
We
did the captains farewell in the observation lounge during the evening and
shortly after we had an auction for the charity foundation in Greenland ”The
Greenlandic children”.
We had the ships flag, signed by all the officers and
expedition team, all the place names and a map over Greenland we had been using
during this voyage, for sale.
