{"id":1315,"date":"2012-09-19T19:36:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T19:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2012-09-19T19:36:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T19:36:38","slug":"from-sea-safaris-to-the-northern-lights-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/19\/from-sea-safaris-to-the-northern-lights-telegraph\/","title":{"rendered":"From Sea Safaris to Northern Lights (Telegraph)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was invited on a press trip to the Arctic Circle in February to witness and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/9483061\/Lofoten-Norway-from-sea-safaris-to-the-Northern-Lights.html\">write about the famous Northern Lights<\/a>, I didn&#8217;t hesitate for a moment. Norway has always been one of my favourite countries. One side of my mother&#8217;s family comes from Norway, and we spent many happy holidays there when I was young, visiting relatives and staying at a pretty basic <em>hytte (<\/em>hut, or chalet<em>) <\/em>in the mountains north of Oslo where we&#8217;d spend long summer evenings collecting bilberries. But I&#8217;d never been to the north of the country, to Arctic Circle and the magical Lofoten and Vester\u00e5len Islands. And yes, I did see the Northern Lights, and plenty more besides&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1322\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/northernligts-oystein-lunde-ingvaldsen-large4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1322       \" title=\"northernligts Oystein Lunde Ingvaldsen large\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/northernligts-oystein-lunde-ingvaldsen-large4.jpg?w=681\" width=\"279\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Light hunting. I&#8217;m the one in the red coat.<br \/>\u00a9 Oystein Lunde Ingvaldsen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was invited on a press trip to the Arctic Circle in February to witness and write about the famous Northern Lights, I didn&#8217;t hesitate for a moment. Norway has always been one of my favourite countries. One side of my mother&#8217;s family comes from Norway, and we spent many happy holidays there when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[23,58,65,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}