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Jane Archer finds lectures and treks replace evening entertainment on an iceberg-spotting voyage along the Greenland coast. It's 8.30am and anyone who is still asleep has just been woken by this morning's announcement. A polite good morning, news that it is two degrees Centigrade outside, taking into account the wind speed, and a reminder that the lectures are due to start in an hour. And then the message is repeated in Danish and German. Not than anyone is in bed. All the passengers have paid thousands of pounds for this one-week voyage on Hurtigruten's cruise ship, Fram, along the Greenland coast – prices start from £2,552 per person for next year – and no one wants to miss seeing the giant icebergs outside the window as we sail past. Especially as we had an added news alert this morning – in three languages, of course – of... [read full story]
