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We sailed for Greenland and the captain said, "If you get sea sick take your tablets or get some from the reception". It was a bit bumpy. only had the metal water bottles crash on to the floor but all well no need for the chicken bags. Arrived at Skjoldunger Fjord plenty of Icebergs all sizes, and proceeded up till Thyrms Glacier, really spectacular, the ship being only 6000 tonnes could get within 200metres, we then piled into the zodiacs for a closer look plus the surrounding landscape, very much solid granite with this large geautiful glacier smack in the middle. We continued on around the large island to I think it is called Princes Margariet Glacier and watched seval chumks of ice calved from it, eventually back into the open sea and down further to ... read more

Hi all, This might seem a bit quick tomorrow we sail for Greenlannd. Had our city tour, great sights, Hofdi House where Reagan and Gorbachov sugned the non nuclier agreement, The Pearl a big viewing area built on 4 water towers with 360deg views , it is avery pretty place, no brick houses though, mainly wood, from drift wood from the sea and corrogated iron. We were taken out into the country area, very barron like a huge volanic rock pushed up out the sea, you can see the volcano shaped mountains and wide glacial valleys, with lots of fissures runn along the mountian sides. We went to the Thingvellir Nat. Park a very old area created by volanic activity, this formed a huge lake fed by natural springs at the rate of 100tonnes water per ... read more

Sorry this has taken so long to do! Hi all, been a bit busy on the run or should I say lots of walking, anyway left home 8.00am wed 24/8 to Singapore, well 6 hours wait in Singapore what to do, went from terminal 3 to 1 then on to 2 and back to 3 that cleared about 1 hour, finally on the A380 for Paris, lovely plane if there is such a thing, but atleast it was very quiet, arrived Paris 7.00am 25/8 and then the first of our thrill rides with transfer to the hotel, through petrol stations to avoid traffic but still 1hour 20mins to cover 20km, will complain about traffic in adelaide again. Dumped our luggage and onto Concord Square, onto the hop on hop off bus for a look around, Champs ... read more

Hi all, once again a test run for my travel blog updates, sent one last week but forgot to add email addresses, that me with technology. We are away 24th Aug, direct out of Adelaide with Singapore Air, then into the new A380 to Paris, 3 days to look around ,chunnell to London, will meet our Sth. African friends there for breakfast before our flight to Iceland. We hope to see the volcanos and hot springs, we board a small ship Prince Albert 2, sound impressive, has only about 140 odd passengers and across to the coast of Greenland, several zodiac landings and some trekking to see views, them into the St. Lawrence River to Quebec and we disembark in Montreal. From there we travel via train to Toronto, tour of Niagara Falls and several local ... read more