On the go…
1st – 2nd January 2024 Our first full day at sea was full-on, with no time to recover from any possible excesses the night before. We were bombarded with information, mandatory Zodiac and Wildlife Awareness Briefings, including measures to prevent
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31st December 2023 – 1st January 2024 We were comfortably bussed from the hotel Arakur to the gangway of MS Seaventure, where we were greeted by our Expedition Leader Hannah Lawson, who was on the Hebridean Sky on our previous
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29th – 31st December 2023 It was a tired couple of travellers who arrived at the airport in Ushuaia, on the island of Tierra Del Fuego at the bottom of Argentina, after leaving home almost thirty six hours previously. Fortunately,
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28th-29th December 2023, London to Ushuaia After our six month World Trip, we were kept busy, dealing with everything that was urgent at La Coste and London! London was dark, with sporadic torrential downpours, so it was with great anticipation
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A few numbers from our world trip Whilst we’ve been away for 182 days, we actually travelled for 183 days and spent 182 nights abroad. That’s because we enjoyed 31 May twice, as we crossed the International Date Line going
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Closing thoughts, Peter As we sit on our last intercity train journey, it seems as if time has whooshed by, as quickly as this Eurostar train is speeding through the French countryside. A Swedish woman working for the Bamboo Yoga
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Closing Thoughts, Lynne As we leave Paris on the Eurostar, I’m astounded at how successful our world trip has been. The time has flown by. What adventures we’ve had; no disasters, just some challenges, most of which we relished. Nor
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September 7-8 At the beginning of our World Trip, our planned railway journeys had been disrupted by strikes in France. This forced us to fly from London to Turin, to catch our booked train to Bari, in the foot of
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31 August – 7 September As we had a firm commitment in Northern Italy at the end of August, we had arranged for Sue and Lawrie, our dear former neighbours in La Coste to stay with us for four nights
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29-31st August With a train departure from Udine station at just after midday, we had a leisurely morning to pack our rucksacks and saunter down to the next door cafe for an Americano and croissant, before leaving our hotel. We
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