Alan Pardew has taken refuge in a coffee shop just north of the Arctic Circle to avoid the bitter wind whistling down the fjord and through the streets of the Norwegian city of Bodo.
CSKA Sofia are preparing for a Europa Conference League match and their director of football is reflecting on a year helping one of the great names from Europe's east, 31 times national champions, back to the top after financial meltdown dumped them into the third tier of Bulgarian football in 2015.
'This club had great moments in the past, famous games against Liverpool and Bayern Munich, but it's a long, long way back there,' Pardew tells Sportsmail.