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During this postdoc, I thought, I will have to visit Svalbard, connecting my travel to a research project. My research focuses, at the moment, on the search of exoplanets and the characterization of their magnetic fields.   However, the idea behind any research I start is pretty much always the same: I study it because it fascinates me, and the Arctic is full of phenomena that I cannot see how they could not trigger a deep interest. The sea ice, constantly freezing and melting, harbors amazing things like \href{http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2014/04/frost-flower-garden.html}{frost flowers}, as well as life in extreme conditions; the upper atmosphere hosts spectacles like Northern Lights.   Nevertheless, I am almost unable to organize a journey in absence of an initial spark deciding when this is going to happen. In this case, the fire was lit during the chat I was mentioned.  “I would like to travel to Svalbard sooner or later” - I said. “For the Eclipse, you mean?” “WoW, is there an eclipse at Svalbard? For real?” I did probably read about this eclipse many years ago, checking an old book of mine I have in my bookshelf in my parent’s house, but I had then hidden the information too well to remember it. Also, some years ago, the possibility to attend the occurrence of an Eclipse in the Arctic was perhaps too remote to be worth to be remembered. Not now, though.