Norway – Sally Wakelin – Studies in Creativity

I had the amazing opportunity to visit this restaurant and indeed all the other fabulous places in Norway that I got to see because of my travelling companion Heather who researched so diligently. Without her hard work I would certainly have missed all the best stuff. She booked all the trips and decided which were the best things to do, what a champion. perhaps she might change jobs and become a tour guide/organiser. They even made the Heather Honey ice-cream in her name!

Caramelised butter and sweet butter (not salted)

King crab from the Barents sea with red currants, flax seeds and nasturtium leaves grown in a hydroponic cabinet in the restaurant!

Pork strips with mashed potatoes and crisps with sugar snap peas

Arctic Char with sour apple cubes and apple and dill sauce

Gooseberry compote with yoghurt palate-cleanser

Baby goat with slow cooked jerusalem artichokes and lovage sauce

Heather honey ice-cream with Rhubarb spherical sponge-cake, honeycomb and roasted sunflower seeds

Chocolates – extra to the menu, other tables were not given any!

Taking a boat trip was the probably the best thing we did during our visit to Svalbard.
We sailed on MS Langøysund with our guide Stein (pronounced more like Stain) from Henningsen Transport.

Steaming off around the western tip of the mountain range to the north of the harbour, we saw a few Minke whales as well as lots of different seabirds, even Puffins. The land around seems almost barren with no trees but plenty of grass and moss and in a few weeks there will be colourful shows of wild flowers.

As we passed Bird Rock on the southern side of Sassenfjorden, thousands of birds were swarming, swirling in the skies and screaming into the wind. A sharp-eyed young man shouted out “there’s a fox” we could just make it out as it ran with a white bird in its mouth, seeking his foxhole for some privacy.