Monthly Archives: February 2023
Just Another Day in Paradise
18 February 2023, Antarctic Cruise Day 5, Paradise Bay and Danco Island – Paradise isn’t always a tropical island or palm-fringed beach. Sometimes it’s a cold, wet, grey harbour in Antarctica, filled with icebergs, penguins and whales. Enjoy our photos of all three. The first batch are from the ship. The rest are from on […]
A Whole New World
17 February 2023, Antarctic Cruise Day 4, Drake Passage to Danco Coast via Borgen Bay and Damoy Point – We awoke this morning to a whole new world filled with icebergs and snowy mountains whose tops we couldn’t see. We’d cruised into Borgen Bay overnight, and were now at anchor, waiting for the morning’s activities […]
Stepping Out for Some Fresh Air
16 February 2023, Antarctic Cruise Day 3, Drake Passage – The wind picked up a bit in the night, but nothing that was going to cause seasickness. We slept till late and had to dash to breakfast. Here is our “rest day” schedule: Our test run revealed that the Helly Hansen jackets, over a thermal, […]
Drake Lake or Drake Shake?
15 February 2023, Antarctic Cruise Day 2, Drake Passage – Not long after midnight we started to feel some rolling of the ship, but nothing to cause concern. We slept really well (probably thanks to the tablets), and woke up to a “Drake Lake” rather than a “Drake Shake” – swells of barely a metre, […]
Valentines Day at the End of the World
14 February 2023, Antarctic Cruise Day 1, Ushuaia and Beagle Channel – It’s been a busy, and at times stressful couple of days, but we are now safely aboard our floating home for the next couple of weeks, the MS Roald Amundsen. We woke to welcome rain and a much cooler temperature than the 37 […]
Last Night in BA
Another quick update. It was 37 degrees yesterday, too hot for sightseeing so we focused our attention on packing and readying ourselves to join the cruise. Not helped by the breakdown of the single washing machine. This morning the weather finally broke with some welcome rain and a much cooler temperature. We booked a rideshare […]
Tour des Morts
(or in Spanish, Gira de los Muertos) 11 February 2023, Buenos Aires, Argentina – You could be forgiven for thinking that we’ve developed a morbid fascination with death. Today we ventured north to one of BA’s biggest drawcards – Recoleta Cemetery. The closer we got, the more Parisian our surrounds became, as Recoleta is one […]
Getting Better
Another quick update to say I am feeling much better this morning, fingers crossed by tomorrow I will feel fine. We plan another very easy rest day today, just to make sure things have settled properly. Ian has made various forays to the supermarket etc. The nearest one is well stocked with GF food, and […]
Buenos Aires
Too tired to think up a catchy title. We flew overnight to BA and arrived this morning, feeling like zombies. The apartment is small but comfy; it is HOT here. More on BA later; first an update on Dallas. Aftr going to bed on our second night, I developed a pain in my right side […]
Dallying in Dallas
5 February 2023, Dallas, USA – Our first rule of long haul travelling is always to block out the first full day after arrival for R&R, in case we are too jetlagged to get out bed. Last time we flew to Europe (which feels like aeons ago now but was only in 2019), my head […]
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