This river’s walking areas have seen a lovely upgrade since last I lived in Beijing – used to run and walk along this river but it was on the roadway, not these nice riverside paths :-).
Yes, these photos were all taken within ten minutes of each other from the top of the boat, shortly after 11am on the 23rd of January :-). First whirlpool experience in the Arctic Circle!
Today’s one of only two this year when Kirkenes, Amsterdam, Sydney and Nairobi will all get more or less the same 12 hours of day and night each. These last shots taken before we got off the boat on January 26th were taken a week after the sun first popped back over the horizon up here…and of course, for a couple months on either side of June 21st, it won’t pop below the horizon, giving it 2x as much sunlight as Nairobi (nearly on the equator) will get that day. Happy vernal equinox, fellow northern hemisphere residents :-).
