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In the summer of 2011, just before my 70th birthday, we went up the Norwegian coast on a ferry through the fjords and past North Cape, the most northerly point of the European mainland. We then flew out to Svalbard where we saw a polar bear and went to 80 degrees north only 600 miles from the North pole.
Christmas...