Norway is a lovely country, but there is rather a lot of it – especially if you try to see it by road. The first tunnel cut through a solid mountain is fascinating but, by the third or fourth, you get rather tied of the view of blasted rock. Of course, bursting out into a scenic fjord, and taking a ferry or a train offers respite but Norway is certainly one country worth seeing by cruise ship.

If nothing else, it also spares you the country’s hotels, too many of which offer what the brochures call ‘Scandinavian style’ but the rest of us might call ‘spartan’. After all, if I wanted to wake surrounded by Ikea furniture, I’d just stay home.

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