A final comment about the effect of the SAS strike on this (would have been) passenger. Deciding that we couldn't take the chance of staying with the Tromso booking, our travel agent booked us instead onto the northbound Hurtigruten ship from Trondheim to Stamsund, then switching to the southbound ship on which we were already booked. It so happened that, on the day we were northbound, it was "Cleanup Norway Day" and our ship had been allocated a small Island (Stott Island) to contribute to the effort. We volunteered to participate, and found ourselves as 2 of about 60 passengers engaging in the exercise. To carry this many volunteers,a comfortable power boat of about 45' was accompanied by 2 RIBs. We went in the longer RIB - about 40' with twin 300hp motors on the back (the smaller RIB was maybe 30' with an inboard jet motor, and almost as quick as us). Clad in full immersion suits, we went about half an hour to the island, and spread out collecting quite a lot of plastic rubbish for 2 hours. Then it was about an hour and a half directly upwind to rejoin our ship at Bodo. At first, the relatively open water constrained our speed to about 33 knots, but later as we came into more shelter that increased to 37 knots! This all being north of the Arctic circle, windchill was ferocious, and we arrived in Bodo very cold, but absolutely exhilarated from what would be a once in a lifetime experience. Many thanks to the SAS pilots who brought this happy sequence of events to pass!