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Once you arrive at the small boat harbor I showed you on Monday, everything you see today is in easy walking distance. When you stroll into the old town section of Tromsø, it’s just a nonstop picture fest. To give you an idea of what I mean, the photo above was timestamped 11:45, and every photo in today’s article was taken by 12:28 p.m. That’s a lot of scenery to enjoy in just 43 minutes!

So, rather than bog you down with a lot of text, and since these were all taken in the same basic location, I’ll just finish off today with this slide show/photo gallery. As always, just click on any image below to enlarge it and to engage the slide show:

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Two days after leaving Molde, on Friday, 24 June 2022, Jewel of the Seas arrived into the port of Tromsø in Northern Norway. As much as we enjoyed all our stops in Norway, Tromsø was one of our favorites. Indeed, we loved the entire Norway trip so much that visited again earlier this year (subject of a future series). Even from the ship you cannot help but notice that there are some real gems here, as well as the unexpected.

There’s even a very impressive building about half a mile/800 meters away that I later found out was the Northern Norwegian Science Center and Northern Lights Planetarium:

The photo above was taken aboard Jewel of the Seas, and is time stamped at 10:41 a.m. So, it must have only taken Ursula and me about fifty minutes to walk from the ship into the main section of town, as the photo below is stamped 11:34. This is the dock area just south of the impressive Tromsø Bridge:

I could spend hours just walking around this area and photographing. Which I in fact did. Here is an intriguing blend of new and old:

And here’s a view of buildings running along the west side of this small boat harbor:

Above I mentioned the Tromsø Bridge. Here is that impressive 3,399-foot/1,036-meter cantilever bridge, which connects Tromsø to the Tromsdalen neighborhood across the Tromsøysundet strait:

Now let’s just swing the camera around and enjoy the area:

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