Has a silver lining. Bang! Wonka-wonka, bang!   Wobble   flap        flap                      flap. Two flat tires. Another beautiful ...

Ours is an exotic adventure.  We begin in Iceland.  A place name that invokes images of geological tempests.   This spring, Eyjafjallajokull...

Is it really the last day already? Most of us are flying out in the early morning of the 23rd, so lets use the time: Bridge visits with Capt...

June 21- the longest day of the year! And by now most passengers are really tired- because you just can not get yourself into bed! The sun i...

Magdalenafjord cuts straigth into the coast- it is often referred to as one of the most beautiful fjords in Svalbard. Going in you see the G...

Our photographer Camille Seaman had to be very patient today- right when starting her lecture there was a call from the bridge: „Polar bear...

A question for you: Is Bjørnøya in Svalbard or Spitsbergen? The use of names is always a bit confusing. In 1194, the Vikings came to a place...

Glacier front, high mountain tops, Belugas in the fjord swimming among the ice and a polar bear waiting patiently for a catch at a hole- eno...

Most passengers arrived today rather early with a direct charter flight from Germany. And even though it meant not much sleep along the way-...

7th and 8th of June FRAM awaits her season start in Longyearbyen. While waiting for new supplies, FRAM gets ship shape for the summer sea...

Sunday 6 th of June Today we sailed in Isfjorden, and this was a good name for this fjord today, because in the beginning we met a lot of ...

SATURDAY 5 th of June We woke up and had our breakfast in Raudfjorden this morning. All landscape was covered by snow and also a lot of f...

FRIDAY 4th of June This Friday we spent in the northernmost permanent settlement in the world: Ny Ålesund. In the summer time around 150 p...

The shining sun and around 15 walruses started this thursday in this Arctic Paradise. The walruses where at Poolepynten on Prins Karls Fo...