For a long time, I felt an almost romantic attachment to wanting to spend time living in Timbuktu in Mali.

While that option still has some appeal, it has now been supplanted. The place I would much love to visit and spend some time in is Longyearbyen in Svalbard Region, administered by Norway.

I just think it would be so unique. I would like to spend a year there. I would like to spend a year because several of those months would be in total darkness, or be in penumbral light from the sun below the horizon, and several months in continuous sunlight.

It would be so good to experience such unique living conditions.

I confess to being fascinated by Longyearbyen, and that fascination is at least a decade old.