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Tromso (again) 2025

The boat docked overnight in Tromsa.  We didn't bother going in in the evening but got up early and went down to town on the shuttle bus.   This is our second visit to Tromso so we didn't bother to mooch around the town because we had done that before.    We went to the Polar Museum, which had amazing icles hanging amd some that had impaled the ground!! The museum was very interesting - gruesome in places because it's mainly about how Tromso developed, and how it was a huge big hunting, fishing area. A lot of the exhibits are about killing polar bears and foxes and reindeers for food and skins.   There's some pretty gruesome traps on show but this was what life was like back in the day. A lot of the animals and now protected species so it's completely different nowadays,  and Tromso are mainly relies on fishing and tourism for its main source of income. Another other interesting bit in the museum was the exhibit...