KJOLLEFJORD, like all Northern Norwegian towns is a collection of very colorful, very neat homes clustered around a snug harbor. At the entrance of the inlet, a couple of rocks are said to look like churches.






Honningsvåg snuggles into the side of a mountain and is testimony to the sheer determination of people who make a go of it even in a hostile environment. The temperature can drop to as low as 60 degrees below freezing in winter. Attractive, simple homes are scattered around a snug harbor. Besides our Hurtigruten Coastal Express, there were two cruise ships crowded into the harbor and the Cunard Line’s behemoth Queen Victoria, to big to come in, almost filled the shipping channel at the mouth of the harbor.