An aerial view of the Lofoten Islands Credit: AP When the boys tired ... we all downed a spoonful of yukky but health-giving cod liver oil (a daily staple for many Norwegian children), and as ...

Pick out Lofoten on a map of Norway and it resembles an unbroken talon of land extending far into the Norwegian Sea. Close up, it is in fact a dizzying, 100-mile-long mosaic of islands ...

As MS Lofoten, built in 1964 and the oldest of Hurtigruten’s 11 ships, pulled into the mountain-ringed harbour at Svolvaer in the Lofoten Islands ... departing daily, from £947pp.