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56 - A Warm Welcome

This blog post will be a rather short one, as today was spent almost entirely flying home. There wasn’t much of a view from the plane as...

55 - Cerro San Cristobal

Our flights out of Chile left in the mid-afternoon from Santiago, so we wanted to make the most of our trip in the morning. We did spend...

54 - Back to Civilisation!

Today was our long travel day, out of the Torres del Paine and Patagonia, and back to civilisation. We started our day with the catamaran...

53 - The Rainbow Glacier

Hi Everyone, Today was nice because we were doing a there and back walk returning to the same tent, so we could leave most of our stuff...

52 - Culinary Chaos

Hi Everyone, Today was the long day, completing the base of the "W" of the W trek. We would be walking about 26km over some fairly rough...

51 - The Night Hike

Hi Everyone, An incredibly early start today at 1:30am, but it didn't hit as hard as I expected! We quickly rolled out of bed, packed up...

50 - The Gateway to Patagonia

Hi Everyone, I suspect the post today will be quite short as most of the day was spent travelling. We woke up around 5:45 to catch a bus...

49 - A voyage through history

Hi Everyone, We woke up in Punta Arenas this morning and you could hear the wind shaking through all the buildings. Sadly, the wind was...

48 - The Wonders of Punta Arenas

Hi Everyone, Today we flew to Punta Arenas! Despite our flight being at 13:58, we were picked up by the shuttle at 8:00 and only made it...

47 - The “Highlight” of our trip

Hi Everyone, Today we got up nice and early to head off on a hike to Cape Pembroke and the lighthouse there. We could do this starting...

46 - An Unexpected Journey

Hi Everyone, Apologies for all the slow and belated blog posts recently. The last few days on the ship were very hectic and then once we...

45 - Volunteer Point (Penguins!!)

Today was the day we finally got to go to Volunteer Point! We had agreed to get picked up at 10am for the tour so that we would be there...

44 - Leaving the nest

What a start to the day! I got woken up at 6:20am (despite by intention of sleeping until around 7:40, a bit before I was due to leave)....

43 - A Falklands Adventure

Hi Everyone, Today was the one free day that people travelling back on the military flight had in the Falklands. We had been trying for...

42 - Land ahoy!

Hi Everyone, Today was our first day on dry land for over a month! The pilot arrived around 9am so we arrived in Mare Harbour around 10am...

41 - D.I.S.C.O. on the Disco

Hi Everyone, Today was very much crunch time for the music video. We had committed to showing it to everyone at 8pm tonight and there was...

40 - The RRS Quizcovery sails again

Hi Everyone, It turns out that we want to show the music video before the end of the cruise so that everyone can see it. As the video...

39 - It's all coming together

Hi Everyone, We are now moving north back towards the Falklands and dry land. Even though we completed our circuit of the iceberg by...

37 - Driving everyone nuts

Hi Everyone, Today has been quite a long day despite being quite short, lots of little jobs, but we got through them eventually. We did...

36 - It is finished!

Hi Everyone, Today, we finished the moorings, Orkney passage work, and our planned work on the cruise. This was incredibly exciting!...

35 - The day of the spheres

Hi Everyone, Today will probably be a fairly short blog post, even though it was a very long day. From when I woke up until when I went...

34 - Music of the spheres

Hi Everyone, Today we arrived at Orkney Passage and began bringing up the moorings, we had six moorings to bring up in total, and aimed...

33 - Transit to Orkney Passage

Hi Everyone, I’ll be honest, with all the chaos and business that is about to unfold over the next few days, I am writing this blog post...

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