Joanna Lumley In the Land of the Northern Lights (1 of 21)

Joanna Lumley In the Land of the Northern Lights

The far north.
Quite overpowering.
Vast expanses, silent fjords.
Fairy tale mountains.
It 's just fabulously beautiful.
The land of the magical Northern Lights is somewhere I've longed for all my life.
It is quite incredibly cold!
Well, I suppose, it's Arctic! 'As a little girl, I lived in the steamy heat of tropical Malaysia 'and, wonderful as it was, I used to yearn to be cold.
'Putting on a cardigan was a huge treat.
'I'd never even seen snow.
'But my storybooks were full of snow queens and trolls 'and now I'm entering that world.
' It's fantastic! We're so far north.

Can we get further north? ..
I think so.
'This is the journey I've always dreamt of making.
'I feel I've come into another world now.
No people, except you...
and us.
'And if we're very lucky, we might see the elusive Northern Lights themselves.
This programme contains some strong language 'My Arctic odyssey begins one chill dawn in early March.
'I'm already 900 miles north of my home in London.
'Is this us? 'An eight-hour journey lies ahead to get to the Arctic Circle.
'And I'm heading there on Norway's real-life Polar Express.
'It's really fresh here, bits of snow blowing in as I look out.
They say don't stick your head out of the window.