In March 2022, we were fortunate to sail on the Viking Venus on the In Search of Northern Lights itinerary. The ship left London Tilbury on March 1, and we disembarked in Bergen, Norway on March 13. The cruise was designed to take us to Lerwick, Shetland, UK (a substitute port for Stavanger that had blocked cruise ships docking); Bodo, Norway; Tromso, Norway; Alta, Norway; Narvik, Norway and Bergen, Norway. We spent six days north of the Arctic Circle with Tromso and Alta being the most likely places to see the Northern Lights. Unfortunately, high winds and seas made docking in Lerwick and Bodo unsafe, so our first port of call was Tromso. The Viking Venus was commissioned in 2021, and like its identical sister ships has a passenger capacity of 930. The were about 650 passengers on this cruise.