Goldring Travel’s Ponant’s Le Commandant Charcot Svalbard & High Arctic Experience (June/July 2022)- Part IV – More Travel Challenges, A Blue Whale, Polar Bears and a Gorgeous Ship!

Le Commandant Charcot awaits!  Our charter flight was from Paris to Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway.  To clear up where I am going up, Longyearbyen is a town on the island of Spitsbergen, which is part of the archipelago known as Svalbard which, in turn, is part and off the coast of Norway.  The chaos in