Kristiansand

Our last day today and in the morning we passed by the southern most point of Norway.

It was a lighthouse on a little island with a very interesting history, and we sailed by and saw it in the distance.

On this holiday we have seen the northern, southern and western points. I think that the eastern point borders with Russia so is not so accessible, although we did get very near to it on a previous Hurtigrurten cruise.

Our destination today was Kristiansand, and we were expecting it to be the warmest port on our trip. However, it was minus 5 or lower with quite a significant wind chill.

Right on the seafront just opposite to where we docked was a museum in an old silo and an amazing theatre made of glass and wavey wooden cladding. It was also the first time that we saw mini icebergs floating down the river to the fjord.

The town was a reasonable size with a nice church and decorative buildings.

However, yet again we found another beautiful lake to wander around. This one had little undulating paths and I managed to slip over for the fourth time this holiday. Fortunately it was in slow motion so no damage done.

However possibly the best sight of the day was a frozen fjord.