Category: Travel

World travel.

Delphi

Friday, 14th January 2011

A trip to Delphi...

A Greek wedding

Tuesday, 11th January 2011

The wedding of Bill and Artemis

Skiing nightmare, Christmas 2010

Thursday, 30th December 2010

It’s the other stuff that wasn’t so much fun. The week before Christmas I found myself sitting in an aeroplane at Manchester airport for 2 1/2 hours, with frozen WCs and no water for hot drinks, while it was deiced sufficiently to take off. We thought we were lucky to be on one of the …

Halley 6 : On The Ice

Thursday, 30th December 2010

After the difficulties of pushing through the sea ice, we finally made it to the Antarctic continent on Christmas Day...

Nearly there!!

Friday, 24th December 2010

The last week has been a slow journey of winding our way through the sea ice of the Weddell Sea, occasionally getting stuck for between 15 minutes and 8 hours at a time.

The Weddell Sea

Friday, 17th December 2010

For the last few days we've been trying to find a route through the sea ice toward our destination...

Ice Ice Baby

Sunday, 12th December 2010

So we've nearly reached 60° South and I was woken up At 6am with the first bangs and crashes as we found the edge of the sea-ice...

Journey South

Monday, 6th December 2010

So who would have thought that the long journey to Halley base would come to a grinding halt outside Carlisle due to frozen points?

Crete 2010

Wednesday, 27th October 2010

A bit late in the day, sorry, but my excuse is IT issues. Last month I went to Crete for some sunshine – and found it (unlike in Portugal). I stayed in Chania old town, on the western third of the island. Crete has been Greek only since 1913 and had a very colourful history …