Arctic
5 posts.
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The Arctic – music and the finish …
Here we are today simply sailing along trying to reach a particular place en route where apparently tide times dictate our landing on the Zodiac’s for a walk about. Frustratingly, we were meant to pull aside a glacier this morning for a zodiac drive by, but as has occurred more than once, something changes and […]
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The Arctic – facts and furry tummies!
So, yesterday and touching wood, today, appear to be migraine free! YIPPEE!! I cannot express how great it felt simply soaking all this in without the looming cloud of strained eyes and throbbing head – wonderful – worry not though, naturally, as one departs, the next appears, yep, cold sores! Fortunately, I appear to have […]
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The Arctic – ‘Santa’, facts and bands!
All good here – well, I say good, sadly another migraine day for me today and with the addition of fuel stench from my rookie rear seating on the morning RIB trip, accompanied by a visit to the toilet very ill!! Spent the afternoon sleeping after paracetamol, then finally can converse happily, partake in dinner […]
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The Arctic – icebergs and facts!
Today, I woke with a smacker of a migraine so slept for an extra hour in the morning – believe it is the whiteness/brightness of the Arctic causing such a reaction ….. our ship gently carved her way through some floating ice today which I looked down on – WOW, the stunning blueness deep under […]
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The Arctic – Our ship awaits (the start…)
Having arrived in Longyearbyen (a small coal-mining town on Spitsbergen Island) from Oslo, our ship awaits us – the G Adventures MS Expedition – about to embark on the Realm of the Polar Bear in depth Arctic tour ….. ‘she’s’ looking resplendent in red and our excitement barely contained – our first trip on a […]