Random Daily Banter

[matticus]

Top tip. Go in summer.

Do you seriously expect us to take advice from a penguin about the ARCTIC?!?

 

[secretsqirrel]

The dark nights are what attract me most, I enjoy the night sky and especially photographing it. The thing I would struggle with most is the 'midnight' sun in summer. I'd like to give it a try for the full year though to get to experience the whole spectrum. The furthest north I've been is Tromso, I'm not sure I'd want to be further up than that for an extended period though.

Tromso has a live webcam on YT. It does look very pretty after dark.

 

[Pross]

Tromso has a live webcam on YT. It does look very pretty after dark.

I was there on my birthday 2 years ago as part of a cruise. We arrived first thing in the morning to heavy snow, we then went up on the cable car in the evening in the hope of getting a view of the Northern Lights over the city but it was still snowing, cloudy and windy so after a while we gave up and went to have a hot chocolate whilst waiting for the cable car back. We ended up missing the cable car and were a bit p***ed off but whilst waiting for the next cable car a gap appeared in the clouds and we got our light show. It's probably the best birthday I've had. It's a beautiful place.

 

[First Aspect]

Well well. It turns out that he may have only had one ball, after all. It remains unlikely, however, that the other was ever brought to London for display purposes in an auditorium.

 

[Bazzer]

In the summer you get lots of light, decent weather and nice scenery. It's how the Arctic should be seen.

And mossies!
In my youth I spent three weeks in Lapland inside the Arctic circle. The weather was glorious, the sun never setting was mind bending, but I returned to the UK covered in bites.

 

[PurplePenguin]

And mossies!
In my youth I spent three weeks in Lapland inside the Arctic circle. The weather was glorious, the sun never setting was mind bending, but I returned to the UK covered in bites.

Top tip 2. Go late August. All the mosquitos have gone by then. Plus there is a small chance of seeing the northern lights.

 

[First Aspect]

And mossies!
In my youth I spent three weeks in Lapland inside the Arctic circle. The weather was glorious, the sun never setting was mind bending, but I returned to the UK covered in bites.

There is also, arguably, too much light. I recall being in the north of Iceland about 15 years ago and over running a few of the days by about 10-15 hours. It's like getting severe jetlag without needing to fly.

I had the same experience in the Yukon actually. It is incompatible with camping and hotel blackout blinds are incompatible with ventilation.

Northern Scotland is a good compromise.

 

[Rusty Nails]

I remember the very good Robin Williams/Al Pacino film Insomnia which was about the problems of a visiting policeman adapting to permanent daylight. It must take a lot of getting used to.

 

[Bazzer]

There is also, arguably, too much light. I recall being in the north of Iceland about 15 years ago and over running a few of the days by about 10-15 hours. It's like getting severe jetlag without needing to fly.

I had the same experience in the Yukon actually. It is incompatible with camping and hotel blackout blinds are incompatible with ventilation.

Northern Scotland is a good compromise.

Yes, I remember one morning waking up, going outside and keeping myself occupied for probably an hour or so, wondering why, even for a very quite settlement, there was no one around but me.
It was only when I went back inside and caught sight of a clock telling me it was 2am.

 

[AndyRM]

I remember the very good Robin Williams/Al Pacino film Insomnia which was about the problems of a visiting policeman adapting to permanent daylight. It must take a lot of getting used to.

The original Swedish one is well worth a watch too.

 

[briantrumpet]

If you want to understand why America is completely fucked, look no further than how they measure recipe ingredients. You expect them to be able to manage a democracy?

 

[Beebo]

If you want to understand why America is completely fucked, look no further than how they measure recipe ingredients. You expect them to be able to manage a democracy?

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Straight cut or crinkle cut chips?

 

[Beebo]

Why would anyone impersonate a rear admiral with a DSO medal? Walter Mitty characters fascinate me.

These high ranking officers all know each other, it would be so easy for someone to say yes I know him. But no one has.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgy42yjn1xo

 

[Pblakeney]

Why would anyone impersonate a rear admiral with a DSO medal? Walter Mitty characters fascinate me.

These high ranking officers all know each other, it would be so easy for someone to say yes I know him. But no one has.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgy42yjn1xo

Has anyone seen John Terry recently?

 

[Ian H]

Why would anyone impersonate a rear admiral with a DSO medal? Walter Mitty characters fascinate me.

These high ranking officers all know each other, it would be so easy for someone to say yes I know him. But no one has.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgy42yjn1xo

So... Dressing up as a sailor might be a crime? It's not as if he arrived in a gunboat.