Simo Räsänen, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Narvik is a town lying on a peninsula located between the Rombaken fjord and the Beisfjorden in the far north of Norway. It's remoteness may give you a feeling you are somewhere rather inconsequential, but it's actually a pivotal transportation hub for iron ore. This made it the scene for a dramatic battle in 1940, the loss of which by the allies led to some of the darkest moments in modern European history. You can learn more about this at the Narvik War Museum. If you fancy some light relief after all that, why not go for a hike up Narvikfjellet.
