On the go…
We’ve learned in any race that the first challenge is to make it to the start line; whilst this is not a race, we hadn’t appreciated that this would hold true in this adventure. With both trains and flight back
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Planning It has been in the planning for some time. Too long – past it’s ‘Best By Date’, really. Around the World – without flying! The basic idea condensed into more than a vague theme in 2019:- 2020 was going
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3rd November 2022, Kathmandu We are sitting in the resplendent Baber Mahal Vilas, a boutique hotel, nestling in a little oasis in Kathmandu. We returned here (for our third stay) yesterday late afternoon, after our trip to Bhutan. We wanted
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21 October 2022, Pokhara We now in Pokhara, Nepal, a pretty lakeside town. We are rested after our arduous 9-day trek to Annapurna Base Camp at more than 13,500 feet in the Himalayas. It used to be the base camp
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Back home Reflections Last leg home The short overnight flight from Toronto to London Heathrow, which departed late due to the late arrival of 5 individuals, passed better than we had expected. Having wined and dined in the lounge in
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We woke up in this sumptuous room in Edmonton’s historic landmark Fairmont Hotel Macdonald and plotted our early morning run. Hurtigruten provided breakfast in a separate room from the other guests, but it was only available from 6.30 ‘till 8.30,
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Cambridge Bay and Disembarkation Filling in time We awoke to fog. Whilst we thought the ship was anchored in Cambridge Bay, we couldn’t see land at all. A certain nervousness began to take hold of the passengers in the dining
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Gjøa Haven Amundsen’s best little harbour Our last ‘wet’ landing, we found ourselves on the sand beach of a compact Inuit settlement that mirrored Pond Inlet. Compact houses evenly spaced out, with a tangle of telegraph poles and cables, huge
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James Ross Strait and Sea Ice Make or Break day We awoke to find the ship sailing, apparently without any sea ice, but then it slowed until it came to an almost complete stop to pick a route through the
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Larsen Sound A day of ice We are hoping to arrive at Gjøa Haven at 6am on Friday 2 September, which likely gives us 2 days at sea with no landings. Travelling through navigable sea ice is slow (and waiting
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