We say that true ecologists are never on holiday, we just do “voluntary fieldwork”. This was a bit true when my colleague Juul and I visited Kapp Linnee on Svalbard. The old Isfjord Radio Station has been rebuilt into a hotel that can be reached by boat from Longyearbyen. The area hosts interesting geological phenomena, old settlements of Pomor hunters and miners and plenty of plants and wildlife. A fun, fancy and adventurous trip, but also an opportunity to scout new fieldwork sites and cross new plant species of our observation lists!