Whisky on the Rocks
This is apparently THE thing to do in Svalbard, whether on a cruise or in a fancy restaurant: the ice in your whisky glass is glacier ice - a bergy bit - fished up from the fjord or chopped off some glacier and you are told how many thousands of years it is and the whisky refill is instant. As the ice is full of tiny air bubbles from times way before industrial air pollution was invented it crackles pleasantly as it melts and you drink and make merry and the refill is instant. The bill comes afterwards. Yeah, yeah, I did go for the trick, too, and left my empty wallet on the counter... Be happy as long as it lasts!!!! Naaaaah, what the heck!Or bring your own whisky if you're not fond of a stingy red label.
