In 2011, we established Tromsø Bed & Books, and as we did that, we took some of his lines to heart. We put them on our website, as a torch or a flag or a roadmap to follow, both for ourselves and for everyone we wanted to come visit us:
«We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.»
Today, in 2022
, we have arrived there: At the end. Of all our exploring, of all our hard work and buoyant joy, of everything it has meant to run the best guesthouse in the world: All the unforgettable encounters with you, fellow explorers out there, all around the world, who also shall not ever cease from exploration but yet someday will arrive at an end of your own. Yes, this is to say, as always in way too many words: We are closing our dear business. Not for now, not for a while, but for good (as «forever» seems too finite a word). The decision didn’t come lightly, and it will forever be the hardest one we ever had to make. But nonetheless it is what we want to and need to do now, back here at the place where we once started, at a crossroads of adventures and a hunger for everything unexplored. The pandemic is to blame for a lot of things, but this ending is not one of them. Our end is our own, a necessary and willed arrival at another beginning. Exactly of what we do not know, but as we close our doors we celebrate everything that was: Almost 11 years and 6500 guests from 65 countries. The stories and memories will live forever. To all of you out there who took part in creating them:
THANK YOU
THANK YOU
THANK YOU
You are the reason we now know, for the first time, that running a small guesthouse at almost 70 degrees north is one of the best adventures you can ever have in life. Keep up your explorations, human!
