Amy's blog posts

Save £100 - book by 31st January

Book between 12/01/2015 and 31/01/2015 and save £100 (based on two people sharing) when you quote 'Winter Offer'.

This offer is valid on all winter holidays.

Terms and conditions apply; 'Winter Offer' must be quoted when booking, offer is not available to agents.

Click here to view all holidays

Congratulations on making your preliminary booking with Artisan Travel.

Once your Travel Expert has finalised all the details and emailed you with a formal quote, they will then give you a call in order to take your deposit. Our standard deposit amount is £400 per person and the final balance is payable within nine weeks of departure.

All bookings are subject to availability and are not finalised until you have received final confirmation from our team. Please do not make any additional travel arrangements until informed that you are able to do so.

We aim to contact you within two working days. If you have any questions in the meantime please contact us on 01670 785 085. Our opening hours can be found here.

Please note we are receiving an unprecedented number of enquiries at the moment and so please do bear with us if it takes us a little longer than normal to respond to your request. One of our experts will be in touch as quickly as possible.

Thank you for your booking!

Congratulations on making your preliminary booking with Artisan Travel.

Once your Travel Expert has finalised all the details and emailed you with a formal quote, they will then give you a call in order to take your deposit. Our standard deposit amount is £400 per person and the final balance is payable within nine weeks of departure.

All bookings are subject to availability and are not finalised until you have received final confirmation from our team. Please do not make any additional travel arrangements until informed that you are able to do so.

We aim to contact you within two working days. If you have any questions in the meantime please contact us on 01670 785 085. Our opening hours can be found here.

Please note we are receiving an unprecedented number of enquiries at the moment and so please do bear with us if it takes us a little longer than normal to respond to your request. One of our experts will be in touch as quickly as possible.

Thank you for your booking!

Thank you for contacting Artisan Travel. Your enquiry form has been submitted and one of our Artisan Travel Experts will get back to you shortly. We aim to answer all enquiries within two working days.

If the matter is urgent then please call us on 01670 785 085. Please click here for details of our opening hours.

One of the more memorable evenings of my visit to Northern Norway was spent in the home of a local fisherman who specialised in King Crab.I will admit right from the start that I on the whole don't eat seafood, but still found this whole evening a wonderful local experience.

King Crabs are rather famous on the north coast of Norway, namely in Kirkenes and the North Cape of the country.

Despite their immense popularity as a local delicacy, we learnt that King Crabs are not native to this region and were in fact introduced artificially by Soviet Scientists in the 1960s to provide a new valuable catch for Russian fishermen. Their native home is the Barents Sea surrounding Alaska where the population is declining, despite strict fishing controls, yet here on the coast of Norway they are thriving.

"We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow."

I've always wanted to incorporate Led Zeppelin into one of my blogs and the opening lines from their classic "Immigrant Song" presented the perfect opportunity.

Singer Robert Plant was inspired to write the lyrics when the band played in Iceland 1970 and this remarkable island has continued to inspire ever since.