Album 2015 Norway - Svalbard from Revenki

Trollsteinen Hike

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 07:13:43 +0000

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Longyearbyen

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:57:16 +0000

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Moments after discovering the airport was closed and our 4:40am flight had been cancelled due to the fog...an unfortunate side-effect of the otherwise perfect (warm) weather.

Longyearbyen

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:55:03 +0000

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Moments after discovering the airport was closed and our 4:40am flight had been cancelled due to the fog...an unfortunate side-effect of the otherwise perfect (warm) weather.

Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:54:55 +0000

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The reopened hotel sports perfectly preserved if somewhat eye-bleed-inducing Soviet-era decor.

Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:51:01 +0000

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The reopened hotel sports perfectly preserved if somewhat eye-bleed-inducing Soviet-era decor.

Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:46:59 +0000

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Museum/gift shop in the hotel.

Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:44:16 +0000

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Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:41:26 +0000

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Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:38:32 +0000

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Monuments to better days.

Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:36:18 +0000

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In Soviet Russia, Elvis impersonate YOU!

Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:32:28 +0000

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It struck me as odd that a fieldhouse in the far arctic north wouldn't have a complete loop for jogging in the winter months. I mean, you've already got two sides! How hard is it to go the rest of the way around?

Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:28:42 +0000

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While I thought the music room was more subtly disturbing, the most common overheard descriptor for the dance instruction room among the other tourists was "creepy". Might have been due to the dresses hung here and there, like ghosts.

Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:24:43 +0000

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Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:21:22 +0000

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The musical instruments weren't what was disturbing about this room. It was the soundproofing that (you never know) might have made it useful to the KGB.

Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:17:38 +0000

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"It's not the size of the guitars that concerns me. It's that they have three sides."

The musical instruments weren't what was disturbing about this room. It was the soundproofing that (you never know) might have made it useful to the KGB.

Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:14:08 +0000

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A long exposure of the theater. I had no idea what the room looked like until a week later when I looked at the images - pitch black inside.

Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:11:06 +0000

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Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:07:19 +0000

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Imagine Chernobyl, but without an inch of radioactive dust over everything.

Everything left behind was in remarkably good condition after nineteen years of abandonment, apart from water-damaged parquet floors in a couple rooms upstairs.

Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:04:15 +0000

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Pyramida Cruise

nobody@ipernity.com (Revenki) — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:02:29 +0000

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The main square, which, per a joke from the guide, had an impressively long name in Russian having to do with the sixtieth anniversary of the October Revolution. Not a terse language, Russian...

The town looks considerably less bleak here. Felt more like visiting a summer camp in the winter time.