The dark is really starting to close in now, the supermarket has started selling dark chocolate doughnuts to celebrate! It's also turned very cold, -18 degrees the other night but the incredible northern lights made it easier to deal with :-)
It's amazing what you get used to up here, when it warmed up to -5 it felt warm and there was no need for hats or gloves. Also taking northern lights photos from out your bedroom window has become the norm too, something I'm definitely going to miss back home.
A couple of things have made the impending darkness more bearable, one being sea ice starting to form in Adventfjorden.
Can't wait for it to ice over completely!
The other being the colour of the sky, not sure whether it's sunrise or sunset if it doesn't come above the horizon but whatever it's called it is spectacular.
Coming up next: Our trip to the Longyearbreen ice caves.....
