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Lagoa do Fogo from Ponta Delgada: A Half-Day Across a Volcano

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Stockholm Cruise Port on Your Own: Gamla Stan and the City Hall...

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Terceira, Azores: Angra do Heroísmo, Biscoitos and Serra do Cume

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Ullapool to Inverness and Loch Ness: A Highland Day Trip

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Copenhagen Cruise Port on Your Own: Nyhavn and Amalienborg

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A Day in Åndalsnes: Romsdal Valley and the Trollveggen Wall

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Northern Europe on foot, by ship, and with a camera

Most of what you'll find here starts at a pier. For eighteen years I worked as a videographer on cruise ships, and the ports where the ship stopped became the places I know best — not the way a guidebook knows them, but the way you know a town when you have four hours ashore and want to spend them well.

That is the practical core of this site: cruise ports on your own. Which harbours need no excursion, what a tender landing actually involves, how much time to leave before the last boat back, and what things cost this year. The answers come from having stood there, usually more than once.

The rest follows the map of those voyages. Norway and the Arctic — the fjords, Lofoten, Tromsø, Svalbard. Scotland and its islands, from Orkney to the Highlands. Iceland, where I keep returning. And further out: the Azores, Greenland, South Georgia.

I photograph because I'm interested in how light behaves in these places — the long dusk of the north, weather that changes a landscape in minutes. The pictures are mine, taken on the day described. The text tries to be useful first.