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I am Spending the Night in an Abandoned Russian Mine!

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 12, 2016December 5, 2016 2 Comments

Tonight should be interesting — I’ll be staying at the Tulpan Hotel in Pyramiden, an abandoned Russian mining community in Svalbard, Norway. I’ve ordered the “Soviet accommodation” and will be cut off from the outside world until tomorrow, for I have been warned there is no internet on the island.

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Currently I am in a guesthouse in Longyearben and the owner could not believe I would want to spend the night there, a ringing endorsement from a local! It is about 38F with drizzle right now in a land in which the sun does not set for three months each year and a watermelon costs about $20 (I just returned from the grocery store!).

So here goes nothing…

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Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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2 Comments

  1. MeanMeosh Reply
    August 12, 2016 at 1:41 pm

    I hope you mean 38 degrees Fahrenheit! 100 degrees with drizzle would shoot the Arctic right past Houston in the nasty weather department 🙂

  2. Mike Nash Reply
    August 13, 2016 at 3:41 pm

    Yikes, 38cin Norway??? Global Warming is worse than I had feared

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