Totally hooked

From the website: People have travelled along the Norwegian coastline with “Hurtigruten” since 1893. The journey is known as “The World’s Most Beautiful Sea Voyage”. Now everybody can travel along in the world’s longest TV program! Spectacular fjords, midnight sun and genuine Norwegian scenery make the setting for a trip from Bergen to Kirkenes. We broadcast the whole trip live minute by minute for 134 hours!

We're totally hooked on the virtual cruise up the Norwegian Coast. We've been watching the fjords pass by this morning, listening to the paying passengers sing and eat, watching the cooks cut up the huge cod, hearing the PA announcements in three languages warning visitors to go ashore, gawking at the hubbub of cars coming and going off the ship. This is a first class cruise in real time.
We wonder if our grandparents ever used this sailing company. Certainly they knew of it.

The lunch buffet today looked absolutely stunning. And it's fun to hear the interviews with the passengers that they do from time to time. . . even if you can't understand a word of it.
Click here to have a look, English version. We'll be cruising in to Harstad by tomorrow, according to the itinerary on the site. Lots of open ocean today above the Arctic Circle. Neptune has arrived to baptize passengers in a traditional ritual. Seas look calm.
I know, I know, we need to get a real life.