The Northern Lights

It was also on my bucket list and I'm pleased to say that I saw them this year (Feb) by going on a two week cruise to the North Cape to celebrate our silver wedding.   They were spectacular and a definite 'to do' thing.    It was certainly a good way to see them from the middle of the sea - no light pollution there

Are you kidding? Cruise ships are lit up like Christmas trees.

Do they turn off some lights for the big event? 

My girlfriemd paid a quite ridiculous amount for a trip to Iceland to see the Northens Lights.  We saw nothing at all.  The guarantee that we would see something amounted to the bus trip out of the light polution being repeated for free until we did see something - however we have to pay our own trip back to Iceland to do this.

Also the most expensive place in the world to buy beer - and they make their own up there.

Ditto my partner and me on a 3 day trip to Iceland in March 2014. Stood for hours in a frozen field for two nights and saw nothing. At breakfast on the last day a waiter told us that they had been seen from Essex.

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A lawn mower sparked the latest false alert!

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Do they turn off some lights for the big event? 

Yes and they also wake you up in the night

o they turn off some lights for the bigevent

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A lawn mower sparked the latest false alert!

See post number 2.

Oops, should have gone to specsavers!