Antarctica travel stories

Christmas markets again

Having been to the Christmas markets the previous year, Lucy and I booked another flight to go to Germany for another weekend. This time, we planned to do the markets in Munster and koln, once aga...

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The Last Frontier --Antarctica

Antarctic Peninsula Eh? This might be a longer email but hey....one can´t possibly skip the details. Our ship was quite a collection of oddballs but I guess that´s what makes it fun. The first d...

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Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a Pirate's Life for Me January 5, 2004

All Antarctic cruises must cross the Drake Passage, the most turbulent sea in the planet. The current whips around the pole, touching all the world's oceans. The swells are grand and foreboding...

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A Study in Four Colors January 6, 2004

You could paint the entire Antarctic landscape with only white, black, and a little bit of blue and green. There are no other colors here. Black rock hills jut up from deep green seas. White sno...

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Got Penguins? January 6, 2004

Thanks to clear skies and calm waters, we could drop anchor at Half Moon Island, an old caldera worn away to a crescent bay. Atop the rocky, snow-drenched bluffs of this South Shetland isle was a v...

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