Category: Adventure
Adventures not covered by other, more specific, categories.
Jo and I had a great three days, walking many miles – why did no-one warn me that the streets of Barcelona are so hard? – in the heat, to tick off as many sights as possible. There are some superb museums in Barcelona. We particularly liked the Frederic Mares Museum. I loved the Museu …
I have spent the last 11 weeks working in Jersey. For our international readers, this is a small island (9 miles x 5 miles) closer to France than England. Jersey isn’t actually part of the UK, but it is a “possession of the Crown”. In other words, Jersey has its own tax and legislation, but …
A conference in Catalonia gives me the chance to visit an underground salt mine...
For our final day in Germany we planned a trip to Battert near Baden-Baden. We'd been here before on our previous trip and had really enjoyed the more familiar volcanic rocks...
To make up for the missing cat shots in my last post on Croatia I'd like to share some pictures I made here in Istanbul...
The last 10 days have seen us travelling from Halley to the UK...........
With just 2 hours before I travel the 15kms to the coast to get on the ship, a last blog from the Brunt Ice Shelf...
As the summer season draws to a close, with only 15 days before we board the Shackleton to sail back to the Falklands, it's all systems go to get the build as far on as possible...