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 ...

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.