calamity

Calamity returns and busy preparing for next adventure to trek after the gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Rainforrest. This is by no means the only adventure to follow Antarctica, if I have time and access I may fill in, and have just sussed how to add entry easily! No mean feat! Managed to get the jungle boots. though not very fetching and poor choice of colours, should meld into the gothic look acquired to blend in with the impenetrable etc. No bright colours allowed and even my animal print wardrobe has to take a step back. I climbed North Berwick Law last week, approximately 600 feet, half an hours exercise, in an attempt to train! and see how fit/unfit I was. I now read that high fitness levels are required, gulp, for up to 4 hour trecks ... read more

contd orcas, etc. finishing off really on antarctica, though the memories will always be there, Photos numberous and will bore you all ad nausiam! Then the next leg of the tour took me from Ushuaia, via Buenos Aires, Panama, Nicaragua to Guatemala City, then by road to Antigua, a world heritag site, and staying at a fablous 200 year old inn with original woodwork etc. Nestle below the fire volcano. still smokin'!, and the watew volcano which caused devastation of the city so the capital was moved to Guatemala City. Food still amazing and definitely swelling at the same rate as mu luggage, but one of the few pleasures I have left so I'll work on it when I get back. Lunch beckons, and I will head the next lot something like central america.....thanks if you ... read more

Not sure where I got to on last or first blog, though not off to the best start the adventure continued from Rio to Buenos Aires. Arrived there without much event, and to sunshine, yeh! The place I was staying was a restored mansion where you could chose which terrace or spot inside or out where you would like to eat, Bathed in the roof top pool, sending cascades over the edge along with the workmen on the next roof. I thought they were waving, but they were trying to harpoon me! Jings it was like living in a place with your own butler, or so I would imagine. Nothing was too much trouble for them and the doorman even escorted me to the shops to get right adapters, probably to protect the locals more than ... read more

Testing for nest chapter, damned if this thing is logical......... read more

The beginning for a beginner...... I have just returned from the most amazing and awesome, (proper use not teenage abuse of) trip of my life into Antacrtica and am not sure where to start describing the experience. Currently sitting in a cosy cafe in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southern most town in the world. Or as they say here, the end of the world, the beginning of everything. After a few hitches on the way, like missed connection to Rio in Paris, 5 hours in CDG to sort out, day late in Rio, storms in Rio, late arrival in Ushuaia, I finally boarded the Antarctic Dream and was on my way to Antarctica. I hadn´t thought through the implications of crossing Drake´s Passage as I was so excited to be here. The meeting of the Atlantic and ... read more