Today the stop was Tromso, population 72,000. It was snowing. But not too windy or cold. Tromso is a good town. I could be happy here. It is a college town, that gives it a certain vitality.
My daily plan is to get off the boat and walk to some attraction. Today the choice was between an aquarium and a polar museum. Since it was snowing, the polar museum won. Roald Amundsen was the first man to reach the South Pole and he was a local boy, so the museum was a lot about him. Much was only in Norwegian, nevertheless I learned that there are 32 kinds of seals in Norway. They are still hunted, but since nobody buys seal hides anymore the hides are stored waiting for the market to return. That’s pretty wrong. In the early 70s Norway had 23 seal hunting boats. Now they have 4. 4 too many.
So, let’s look around Tromso.
The sign says:
This is the war
Against democracy
Against Europe
Against you
The menu was hot wine, beer, hotdogs. Doing a great business. College town, remember.
