Tromsø

Tromsø makes you feel like living inside a snow globe: yes, it’s rough, cold, dark and if you are not lucky enough to own a garage, you will spend 6 months of your life per year, scraping ice from your car. But you don’t get anywhere else in the world the experience of observing amazing northern lights FOR FREE whenever you want, bringing you kid home pulling him on a sledge or going out to meet your friends in summer time, at 7 pm and returning home at 3 am with the sun shining on your face.

But Tromsø is much more than the aurora: it is the cold smell in the air, the silent snow falling all the time, the beautiful mountains, the midnight sun, the stunning nature and magnificent mountain views. It is about feeling the adrenaline and emotion when you do your first RIB trip in -10 around the island and end up with frozen hair and eyelashes. Or when you mush your own dog sledge for the first time and your best friend falls off and the sledge just drives itself while you laugh your life.

This is the magic about Tromsø. You have to live it to love it.