{"id":1913,"date":"2006-07-23T13:16:38","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T18:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:56:38","slug":"norway-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2006\/07\/23\/norway-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway II"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>Its 130 in the afternoon, but it might as well be 130 in the morning, because, north of the Arctic Circle, it might just as well be morning as evening. It\u2019s not just a midnight sun–it\u2019s an all-night sun. We went to a midnight concert at a church, which probably does not have to do a lot of fundraising (and bake sales!) because of the cruise visits.\u00a0 I wanted to take a picture of the clock at a jewelry store which said one o\u2019clock, but since it was not military time, you\u2019d never know whether it was am or pm.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>The scenery is beautiful, boat smooth, full of Europeans. That had one benefit. I watched the last 30 minutes of the World Cup with people who were passionate about football, but not the American game. Probably as many folks watching in the conference room aboard this big ship as in all of the USA. As one of the ship officers said, it\u2019s our super bowl.<\/p>\n

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Lapland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"<\/a> This trip, on a coastal ferry, is not as scripted as the last trip, and it\u2019s not as full of academics or Americans. That is good and bad. Scenery is northern with some nice historical touches. Reminds me of Canada-Northwoods. Fish are cod and salmon.<\/p>\n

And we had the chance to eat reindeer.\u00a0 Sorry, Rudolph!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Had a great flight. Got to the airport in Chicago and discovered that we had no seats. Be patient said the attendant. We were, and got to fly business class. Nice upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its 130 in the afternoon, but it might as well be 130 in the morning, because, north of the Arctic Circle, it might just as well be morning as evening. It\u2019s not just a midnight sun–it\u2019s an all-night sun. We went to a midnight concert at a church, which probably does not have to do … Continue reading “Norway II”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-norway-cruise"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8773,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/8773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}