Cruising the Glaciers and Fjords The length of Chile becomes real when you know that it takes two days, averaging 15.5knots to get from Punta Arenas to Puerto Chacabuco and you still have three days before journey’s end in Valparaiso. As we approached Glacier Alley, the clouds came down and visibility was limited. The onlyContinue reading “Fjords, Glaciers, Islands and Ports along the Chilean coast”
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The Drake Passage and Rounding Cape Horn
When you leave things too long and don’t check your memories, you leave things out! Lesson learnt, I hope! How could I forget the Drake Passage and Cape Horn???? After Antarctica and before Ushuaia we had a day sailing the Bellinghausen Sea ( not the smoothest crossing ever, but could have been much worse!). AndContinue reading “The Drake Passage and Rounding Cape Horn”
After Antarctica
Can anything live up to the experience that is Antarctica? Chile and Argentina will try!! Ushuaia Everyone had told me that Ushuaia is a dump – a jumping off place for cruises and flights to Antarctica. But I found a thriving community with a distinctive lifestyle and some good shopping especially for visitors. We decided toContinue reading “After Antarctica”
Cruising Antarctica
No sooner had we arrived in the waters of Antarctica than things seemed to have improved and the sun shone on us. The three days ahead of us more than fulfilled my expectations in many ways. There were sights to be stored in the memory for life, for sure this is not a place toContinue reading “Cruising Antarctica”
Hi from the High Seas
As I write we are creeping (at about 16.5 knots per hour) towards Admiralty Bay in the South Shetland Islands. We left Stanley in the Falklands late yesterday afternoon and have now been at sea for more than 24 hours without sight of land. I had always understood that the Southern Ocean to be amongContinue reading “Hi from the High Seas”
Now it’s the sea that’s deceiving me!!
It’s Sunday and we’re on the Atlantic Ocean about three quarters of the way from Puerto Madryn to Stanley, capital of the Falkland Islands (Las Malvinas) as I write. All day we’ve experienced calms seas and gorgeous skies, with sunshine and glistening water. We’re told it might be different tomorrow but we’re hoping not….watch thisContinue reading “Now it’s the sea that’s deceiving me!!”
On a ship again
I was just checking out from the hotel as someone asked the receptionist to call me: my transport to the ship had arrived early! That was good as I hate sitting around waiting when I’m ready to move. It was barely fifteen minutes to the port area and very soon I began to see signsContinue reading “On a ship again”
How deceptive can a city be?
Monday 9th January 2017 There were three places I set out to see today but I had one massive requirement: I HAD to find an external hard drive as the one I brought with me wasn’t ‘speaking’ to the laptop and I could do nothing with it, so a computer shop was a must andContinue reading “How deceptive can a city be?”
To BA on BA
Sunday, January 8th 2017 – almost two and a half years since last anything was posted here. There have been a few attempts, but nothing got as far as being published. Here are a couple of samples: ‘But I have travelled. Immediately after America there were short visits to Paris and Florence. Then there wasContinue reading “To BA on BA”
Power!
Although we were sad to be leaving old and new friends and moving on in our journey through the eastern USA, the time came the morning after the wedding and, having spent time over breakfast with some of the others and had an opportunity to thank the bride and bridegroom and their families, the carContinue reading “Power!”
Living the Journey 