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Exploring Cheddar

Jun 29, 2014Apr 30, 2022 Travel & Shit1 Comment

It actually doesn't take a shit tonne of time to get to Cheddar from Cornwall even when your sat nav is trying to kill you because you forgot to turn off the "no motorways" option. Oops. But a spot of tinkering and a minor nervous breakdown later and she was taking us on to all [...]

Posted in England, Europe, United KingdomTagged Cheddar, Cheddar Gorge, Cornwall 2014, England, Great Britain, Jurassic Coast, United Kingdom

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I don't know if I mentioned it but we actually went to Antarctica recently (I know, I can't believe I've barely mentioned it) and we saw an absolute metric fuck tonne of ice there and it was imposing and beautiful and majestic but aside from the sod off great big icebergs casually bobbing past the ship it didn't actually move. No amount of staring at it really intently would make it calve. So we took ourselves off to the Perito Moreno Glacier about 80 kms from El Calafate to gawp at even more ice.
After spending ten days shovelling obnoxious quantities of incredible food into our chops on the ship (you know, the one we took to Antarctica) we figured we should probably do a bit of walking. My trousers didn't fit anymore, I had to unbutton them to sit down, but I don't know what I thought would happen if I kept having two breakfasts and two lunches every damn day. My legs had forgotten they had a function other than transporting me between the dining room and the biscuit tin.
Day 8, our last proper day in Antarctica. I'm not crying, you're crying. We woke up to the sight of Deception Island looming outside the window, a volcano which last erupted in 1969 I think? We moored in Whaler's Bay and learned all about the ruins of the Norwegian whaling operation in the 1930s. Photo 6 is where they stored the whale oil. Photo 8 is where they melted the blubber into oil. Try not to gag.
Day 7 started with a trip to an island in Mikkelsen Harbour to put some nesting gentoo penguins in our eyeholes. Nope, still not board of the waddling little comedy shows wrapped in a tuxedo. Those piles of stones they're lying on are their nests, they've all got eggs. If you close one eye and squint with the other this could be a scene of tourists sprawled on the pebbles at Brighton beach. It looks about as comfortable.
Day 6 started with killer whales (photos 6 & 7) but also a humpback whale in amongst them. Apparently they're not the type of killer whale to take down a humpback and it's more likely the humpback was trying to chase them out of its area like a grumpy old bloke shooing teenagers off his lawn. Or in this case, a slightly murderous family.
Day 5, and we woke up to an Antarctic blizzard, the snow sweeping in sideways and settling on the deck. Obviously this meant we had to spend a few minutes after breakfast lobbing it at each other like the mature and sensible adults we are.
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