One of the optional extras you can book is camping on the shore which I'm sure is a pretty fucking amazing experience if freezing to death is high on your bucket list, but conditions have to be right. They'd tried early on in the trip and last night they'd tried again but it had started [...]
Okay so firstly I need to address the exceptional housekeeping on this ship. You'd kind of expect your room to be refreshed once a day if you were feeling a little bit fancy, right? The housekeeper comes in in the morning once you're up and about and do the usual. They make your bed, put [...]
Today we'd be heading into the Lemaire Channel which at its narrowest point is about 75 metres and full of icebergs. Mario woke us up over the PA at 7am and we stumbled up to the dining room for breakfast. Wonder if I can pay Mario to record me a personalised wake up alarm for [...]
We were jolted awake at 6.30am by the dulcet tones of Mario over the PA welcoming us to the day. Jesus fucking Christ, Mario! A bit of warning would have been nice! We'd set an alarm for 7.30, I'd gotten up for a wee at about quarter past six all smug that we still had [...]
What a fucking day then! They'd told us yesterday if conditions were good, which was 50/50, that we could land on one of the South Shetland Islands. We tried to keep our hopes in check but it's difficult, especially when we got our first glimpse of land, plus a bonus iceberg for good measure. It [...]
I got to sleep pretty easily thanks in part to the calm waters of the Beagle Channel but it was largely down to the Profergan. My brain had gone into zombie mode so it was easy to coax it into sleep from there but I was lurched awake at around 11.30pm. That'll be the Drake [...]
Day 1 I mean, they're calling this day one of the tour but you're in Ushuaia all day. It's just the day most people are using to get to the city, get settled in and get their bearings. All we had to do was check out of our apartment, shuffle to the middle of town [...]
Argentina is really, really, utterly fucking massive. We knew we'd be spending many, many hours on buses but hopefully this will be the longest stint we'd have to do without breaking it up with something fun. First, we had to get from Puerto Madryn to Rio Gallegos. It was meant to be a 17 hour [...]
We wanted to just chill somewhere for a week over the Christmas period because fuck trying to work out logistics in the midst of a Catholic country preparing for the birthday of their dead lord, and we figured a tourist town like Puerto Madryn would do it. There's shit to should we desire to do [...]
We'd come to Puerto Madryn to lay low in a lovely beach town but it's probably against some manner of law to not visit the Valdes Peninsula whilst you're here. It would probably have been cheaper to do a tour but we're trying to avoid close proximity to other humans and their various disease carrying [...]
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