It’s the 17th of August, and we’re still out in the Barents Sea. The delay is due to the rather abominable weather we’ve been having up here. It now looks like we shall be calling at Murmansk on Sunday morning, 19th of August. Here we will get the necessary documents stamped by the Russian authorities, handle various and sundry formalities, and get ready to leave Russia in a proper way.
Our plan is to continue by sea, sailing westward to the North Cape. If all goes well, we’ll arrive there on the evening of the 21st or morning of the 22nd of August.
All us well with Thomas and me, and everyone else on board the SS “Athene”. The weather is much calmer than a few days ago. There’s a relatively gentle northerly wind and seas have settled down. We are enjoying our journey and looking forward to setting our feet on first Russian, then Norwegian soil.
