Apologies that we've been neglecting the blog lately..so here is a quick update! After quite a few days spent in Bodø we set off early on Tuesday morning and made our way to a little place called Tonneshaven. After passing the polarsirkeelmerket or polar circle seamark (goodbye arctic!) we arrived there late in the evening. It was an interesting harbour to come into in the dark and the rocks near the channel seemed very close, but we found space on a pontoon and had a good nights sleep. The wind picked up not long after we arrived and there were strong northwesterlies on Wednesday morning so we walked into the village where we found a small shop. They were very kind and let us use their net to get the latest weather forecast. We decided we'd leave on dark that evening so I had time to dash up the hill to the grotto (a large cave going some 180m into the mountain) which was a fun but slippery adventure as it'd been raining most of the day! The wind was still quite strong and we had a few squalls in the evening but it gradually eased and the moon came out again. I'm sure I saw a 'moonbow' it looked just like a rainbow but was grey rather than coloured..perhaps I was seeing things! We arrived in Rørvik mid afternoon on Thursday and left the following morning for Kristiansund which took us about 36 hours. Kristiansund is quite a large town with a impressive but relatively narrow harbour, and our timing wasn't the best as the Hurtigruten (a large cruise ship that travels up and down the coast and fjords of Norway) arrived at the same time we did. We caught up on some sleep and left early the next morning for Alesund arriving after dark that evening. We weren't sure where was the best place to tie up so ended up along side a boat in the harbour. On Monday morning the harbourmaster recommended we move and tie up onto the next boat which turned out to be the M/F Bilfergen. Will let you know about our adventures in Alesund and all the wonderful people we've met on the next blog :-) So its been slow progress since we arrived in Norway..the weather hasn't been that great but hopefully we'll make it across the North Sea soon!