Blog 4 – Our Whale Tale - Lake Myvatn to Husavik and onto Akureyri, the capital of the north Dear all Well we awoke to another day of heavy showers and the weather was much colder just 9 degrees. Packed the car and headed off to find our first attraction, the mighty Dettifoss Waterfall. Forgot to mention the Iceland word for waterfall is ‘foss’ so Dettifoss has the reputation for being the most powerful foss in all of Europe. So we set off up Highway 862, a secondary road and thankfully it was bitumen. We drove across more volcanic ash landscape, then across land covered in sheets of stone finally making it to the Dettifoss carpark in the middle of nowhere. Walked about 1.5kms over the stones and then heard the roar of water and saw ... read more

Blog 2 Glaciers and Icebergs After another great breakfast we left the Icelandic Hotel Klauster and did a short drive to the Fjaorarglgufur Canyon. Weather was cool and gently showering. We drove for about 6 km along a dirt road. Arriving at the parking spot we then had to walk for about 2kms across a field to the canyon. The walk was well worth the effort. Fjaðrárgljúfur is a magnificent and massive canyon, about 100 meters deep and about two kilometres long. The canyon has sheer walls that twist and turn and are really narrow in some places. The viewing spots are excellent and we found it easy to get some great photo. It would have been a great experience to walk along the canyon floor but given there had been a lot of rain it ... read more

Amazon Blog Dear all We have skipped a few blog entries to send these wonderful photos of our three days in the Amazon. It has been an amazing experience seeing a very different place. Posada Amozonas is the Eco Lodge we are staying and they have done an amazing job of helping us to learn as much as possible about the bugs and wildlife in a very short time. The humidity here is unbelievable and the two-hour storm today was a real knock out. Our lodge is more like luxury glamping – beds with big mossie nets and no side wall or windows just like a big verandah. We have monkeys swinging in the tree outside our bed, frogs, cicadas, mossies etc everywhere. Enjoy the photos and hopefully the captions will help you understand the experience ... read more

Hi all – the trip reporter is a bit behind schedule but not to worry as that is what happens when you are on a busy trip. Have finally got around to doing the Morzine update - enjoy! Well the amazing trip continues with all the kids and parents doing a great job of adapting to a new time zone, very warm weather, new food, different beds, lots of walking and driving as well as travelling via gondolas and chairlifts – so much in a short period of time. After our early departure from Bristol in the UK we all arrived in Geneva, collected hire cars and drove to Morzine in the French Alps. Carla waited a little longer for Breny’s flight to arrive from Australia and Liam had a lovely surprise to see his dad. ... read more

Blog 6 Edinburgh/St Andrews Scotland Oslo/Copenhagen/Edinburgh flight interesting! SAS airlines underestimated the number passengers on the Copenhagen/Edinburgh leg travelling with golf bags. We had a huge head wind and arrived an hour late only to find the golf bags were not with us. They had been sent via Stockholm along with many other golf bags and the queue at the missing luggage counter was very long. Then the hire car queue for Europcar was really long and moving painfully slowly as well – The British Open brings thousands of visitors to the airport each day!! It was good to get the hire car and finally get out of the airport. It should have been easy to get to our accommodation accommodation at Clatto Bothy, near Cupar but the road was closed for 2 hours for resurfacing. ... read more