23-28 Apr 2023. There's something special about walking down the streets of a new place for the very first time. When the street is the main street of Longyearbyen on a sunny April morning with -11°, though, words truly fail me, because I don't know how to convey the feeling at all.

There has been no place I've ever wanted to be in more than Svalbard, and stepping out of the hostel on day 1, looking left and right, and then walking down the main road from Nybyen to town for the very first time is something I will never forget.

As for the next few days, those, too, are something I will never forget.