It's almost midnight in Trondheim, we have just received the key to the sleeping cabin, lifted the bag on the shelf and now we are heading for the cafe car to get us a snack before we go to sleep. During the night nordlansbanen will bring us beyond the polar circle and the railway end station, Bodø. Outside it is bright light. I'm trying to stay awake, taking in all the impressions, experience the rough nature bathed in the midnight sun, but eventually I fall asleep. 10 hours later, the train rolls into Bodø Station.

I was in love. We had spent the whole day in Trondheim and at 23.30 our train from Trondheim to Bodø was leaving We had a sleeping cabin, just for the two of us, it couldn't be more romantic.

We travel across the Salt Mountain and passed the Arctic Circle - all lightened by the midnight sun - before we got into the typical north-norway landscape and to the Norwegian railway end-station in the north, Bodø.