Han Qi touched her head and said, "The photos were taken in front of the church. Do they look like our wedding photos?"
"It wouldn't be so shabby if we got married, but it looks okay. You can send it to my mobile phone quickly."
Continuing forward, you can see many road signs. In addition to reminding you not to litter in Longyearbyen, these road signs also remind you that polar bears may appear here at any time, so pedestrians walking on the road should be careful.
The slogans in the city outside saying 'Beware of Vehicles' have all been replaced by 'Beware of Polar Bears'.
Ingrid walked in front and said leisurely with her hands behind her back: "My grandfather told me that there are many polar bears here. The polar bears are even more than the population here."
"How many people are here?"
"The permanent population is 2,500, and most of them are Norwegians, but you know, this is a small United Nations, and there are people from all over the world. Maybe you can find your Chinese compatriots here."
Due to the "Treaty of Svalbard" signed by China in 1925, Chinese people can come and go in Longyearbyen anytime and anywhere. They exempt Chinese people from visas, and on this basis, you can even come here without a work visa.
Go to work and find a job.
Han Qi nodded, looked at the ice and snow in the distance, and asked: "It looks very small here, is there anything interesting?"
"Looking at the snow scene?" Ingrid said, and then said happily, "I remember my grandpa told me that there is a ski resort that is open all year round. It will always be open in winter and summer. It is too late today. We will get up tomorrow.
Would you like to go skiing?"
"sure."
Skiing is a common hobby for both of them, and Han Qi will not refuse Ingrid on this point.
But that is all tomorrow. The most important thing today is to find a place to live. According to the trend of heating in front of Norway, there should be heating here. Both of them miss the warm room and the soft big bed.
The current temperature in Longyearbyen is minus 7 degrees, but it is the hottest area in the entire Svalbard Archipelago.
A warm current from the Norwegian Sea will flow through the west of the archipelago, and the heat it brings will greatly increase the surrounding temperature. Therefore, it is much warmer here than in areas with the same latitude. In summer, sunny places are still warmer.
Green grass will grow out, which can be regarded as a large park in the city. Residents like to go for walks in these places.
Along the highway, Han Qi found that the facilities here were very complete.
There is an indoor swimming pool, a large gymnasium, a rock climbing wall, a pub, and a hotel. The signboards are very high, and you can find hotels in Longyearbyen far away.
Pushing open the sliding door, the temperature inside instantly made the two of them feel comfortable.
Han Qi took off his hat and said to the hotel front desk: "One room."
Ingrid quickly shouted: "Two rooms!! Two rooms!!"
Han Qi rubbed his ears, sighed and said, "Then two rooms, are they available?"
"Yes, I will take you up."
After tidying up at the front desk, Han Qi and Ingrid took Han Qi and Ingrid up the wooden stairs to the second floor. Han Qi asked her, "How many hotels are there here?"
"Besides ours, there are two other hotels. Their services and decoration are similar, but ours is the cheapest."
"Is there anything fun to do tonight?"
The young lady shook her head: "It's very cold at night, so I suggest you don't go out. There aren't many people here. But there are many places for you tourists to play here. There is a tourist store not far to the right when you go out, and then there is a theater.
However, theaters are generally only open on weekends, and there are three bars. If you want to go out later, you may have to go to the bar."
"Oh, it's very detailed, thank you."
"I'm used to explaining this to tourists. Did you go on your honeymoon after getting married?"
Han Qi and Ingrid's eyes met in the air. Han Qi shook his head and said, "We have two rooms. Do we look like newlyweds?"
Ingrid glared at Han Qi but said nothing.
The hotel building is not big, with three floors in total. The two rooms Han Qi and the others stayed in are adjacent to each other on the second floor.
Han Qi lost his luggage, threw his clothes, masks, and hats on the sofa and went next door to find Ingrid. He knocked on the door and said, "Should we go out to eat in a restaurant or just eat in the hotel? Open your door."
.”
The door to the room opened with a click, and Ingrid poked her head out and took a look, calling Han Qi to come in.
Without answering Han Qi's question, Ingrid stamped her foot and said angrily: "Are you stupid? If you open a room, my parents will definitely be paying attention to us. If they see me, I will die.
Do you believe that my dad will come over from Oslo overnight?"
Han Qi blinked, feeling scared for a while, but when he thought about it, what should he be afraid of when he was already engaged?
Han Qi had already done what he needed to do in the past few months. He was not a saint who had to wait until marriage before taking action on Ingrid. However, these actions had to be carried out behind the back of Ingrid's family, otherwise Han Qi was a little worried that the prince would
He shot himself with a gun.
Indeed, this trip for the two of them is different from the past, and there is a high probability that Ingrid’s family will pay close attention to the entire trip.
Han Qi nodded, but had a slight objection to what Ingrid just said. He said, "It's not that you are dead, but that I am dead. My wife is so smart. If I sleep here that night, you should go to my room."
Come and sleep."
"Why are you sleeping..." Ingrid blushed a little and ran out of the room in a panic, "Eat first."
Han Qi looked at the empty door, then looked at the key card on the table, and picked it up.
"Hey, I'll see how you open the door later."
Putting it in his trouser pocket, Han Qi also went downstairs.
Although this is just a city with a permanent population of only over 2,000 people, it has a lot of things that it should have, and the decoration is not bad. It is not a cheap restaurant in the countryside, but it is designed with real care.
Han Qi and Ingrid entered this store.
It's a pity that there is no Chinese restaurant, Han Qi felt regretful for a while.
After staying abroad for a long time, you will miss the delicious Chinese food.
Perhaps the only thing Han Qi likes about Western food is all kinds of pork chops. She ordered a pork chop that was roasted on the outside and tender on the inside, and mixed it with sauce to eat... I don't want to say anything else, but at least it was full.
After dinner, it was still dark, so Ingrid suggested: "Shall we go see the seed bank?"
"Now?" Han Qi looked at his watch.
Although it's not dark, it's because the sun is coming soon, and it's actually already eight o'clock in the evening.
For various reasons, Han Qi wanted to go back to his room to sleep.
"Yeah, it's not dark yet anyway. There are a lot of people outside at this time of day. What are you afraid of?"
"..."
If you're not afraid, forget it, it's up to you.
As early as 2008, Time magazine in the beautiful country selected the "50 Important Inventions" of the year. One of them exists in the world's northernmost city, and it is the Doomsday Seed Vault.
In 2008, the Norwegian government invested US$9.11 million to build a repository in Longyearbyen to preserve the seeds of crops around the world to prevent species extinction caused by natural disasters or the rapid reduction of global species diversity.
The seed bank is built 120 meters underground in a sandstone mountain in the Longyearbyen permafrost zone and 130 meters above sea level. The advantage of this design is that even if the glacier melts, the inside of the seed bank can still maintain a dry environment and can
It can withstand earthquakes and nuclear weapons and is the safest gene storage in the world, comparable to the national gold storage of the United States.
Neither of them could find the specific location, but looking at the navigation, it was not very far away, so they decided to take a walk there.
As soon as they left the restaurant, Ingrid discovered a surprise.
Polar bear?
No, no, of course not a polar bear. Although the second largest population of Longyearbyen residents are Russians, the online transmission is an online transmission after all. Even the Russians would not dare to face a wandering polar bear alone.
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What Ingrid saw were reindeer.
One big and one small, two.
“So cute!”
Like other girls, Ingrid has no resistance to such furry things. And although the reindeer is also very large, it will not hurt people for no reason, and it is much easier to get in touch with than the polar bear.
Ingrid's eyes signaled to Han Qi that it was time to take pictures, and then she walked forward cautiously, stopping about twenty meters away from the two reindeer.
The alert reindeer had already looked up at Ingrid.
Han Qi quickly took the photo, nodded to Ingrid, and both of them breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the record of reindeer harming humans in Norway is very low, no matter what size it is, even if it wants to be intimate with you, it will hurt humans unknowingly, not to mention these two reindeer look like wild animals.
Woolen cloth.
Han Qi has seen domestic reindeer, and their eyes are different.
I took a photo and followed the navigation in the direction of the Doomsday Seed Vault.
In fact, it was the direction they came from when they left the airport. They walked to an intersection and continued forward to the airport in Longyearbyen. To the left, the road leading to the top of the mountain was in the direction of the seed bank. The two were about to go forward when they were stopped by someone.
A police car was stopped.
Han Qi asked: "Is something wrong? Officer."
The police officer rolled down the window, looked at the two people's attire, and asked with a serious expression: "Do you have guns? This is the area where polar bears live. You can't go up the mountain without guns."
"ah?"
Han Qi was surprised by what he said. As we all know, Norway is a place where guns are prohibited. Even the police must obtain approval in advance to wear weapons. Therefore, police patrols are often without weapons. After all, Norway has good public security and is known as
One of the safest countries in the world.
And here, you can’t go out without a gun?
Ingrid slapped her forehead.
Forgot!
Officers continue to remind:
"You are tourists. If you have time, you can go to Longyearbyen University to take a hunting course, then rent a gun and come back, or hire a professional hunter. Just don't leave the hunter's sight. Go back now.
"
Han Qi showed his hands to Ingrid.
There is no way.
It seems I can only go back first.
Han Qi almost laughed.
Ingrid felt very disappointed, and according to what she said, she had to bring a gun when going skiing?
The police walked up the mountain, while Han Qi and Ingrid walked back.
The more Han Qi thought about it, the more he felt that what the police said made sense. He had touched everything except the gun. He said to Ingrid: "Let's go to Longyearbyen University he mentioned tomorrow. If the training time is short,
, let’s just go and train?”
"I'm not interested. I just want to go skiing tomorrow. How about we hire a hunter?"
Han Qi thought for a while, nodded and said, "That's okay. Hunters carry guns anyway. I can learn from him then."
Back at the hotel, Ingrid rummaged through her bag.
"Huh?"
Turned it over again.
But obviously she couldn't find it. Her room key card was now in Han Qi's pocket. Han Qi was standing in the corridor watching her look for the key.
"Did you forget to bring it?" Han Qi kindly reminded.
Ingrid thought about what happened when she went out just now, and exclaimed, "I just forgot to bring it with me. It's all your fault."
Han Qi nodded: "Yes, yes, it's all my fault. Come in and take a rest."
Han Qi pulled Ingrid into his room and closed the door with a bang.
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There are more than 100 days of polar night and more than 100 days of polar day in Svalbard every year. Now we are in the season where winter and summer intersect. However, it is obvious that the time occupied by day and night in the sky has been imbalanced. The sun has occupied the sky with great advantage.
There are only four hours of darkness every day.
The alarm clock rang, Han Qi half-opened his eyes, looked at it and went back to sleep.
Ingrid turned up and looked at the alarm clock, then turned it off and went back to sleep. The alarm clock was the time she got up every day, but it was too late last night and neither of them wanted to get up so early.
Han Qi slept until he woke up naturally, and Ingrid just closed the door and went out.
Last night, Han Qi had told her that he had the key, so he should go out to change clothes at this time.
I got up and took a shower, changed into thick clothes in the warm room, and as soon as I got all the equipment, Ingrid opened the door and came in. She was wearing a blue cold-proof suit, a black mask, and her blond hair was made of brown wool.
The brim of the hat fell down.
"What a coincidence, I'm dressed too," Han Qi said.
"I still want to wake you up." Ingrid was a little depressed and did not scare Han Qi, but she soon became excited and said, "Shall we go skiing?"
"I'm a little curious about Longyearbyen University. Let's go there first."
Ingrid was also a little interested. After thinking about it, she nodded and said, "I'll listen to you. Let's go to Longyearbyen University first."
I went downstairs and asked the front desk, and found out that this school was just a few hundred meters away from them. It only took ten minutes to walk slowly, so I went there immediately. The first thing I saw was the Norwegian Arctic Research Center, which is actually Longyearbyen University.
.
There is no security guard in the school, but there is a front door. When you walk in, you will see a snow-covered playground.
Most places are covered with snow. It seems that people who go to school here don't do much sports activities. There is no snow on the basketball court and the track. Now there is a group of people chasing each other on the basketball court.
"Can you play basketball?" Ingrid asked.
"I know a little bit, but I'm not proficient."
Han Qi replied.
He was looking at the building of this school, Longyearbyen University. It didn't sound big, and it wasn't actually big, but the design of the building was very clever and artistic, and it didn't follow the rules.
There are not many buildings in the school.
The roof of one of the buildings is designed in an arc. It is still a three-story building on the left, but on the right, the roof is getting lower and lower, and finally it is only two meters above the ground. Behind this building is a
The high snow-capped mountains are covered with white snow. The sun shines on the mountain peaks, creating a scene of golden mountains.
Han Qi remembered Brother Feng’s description of the snow-capped mountains.
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