Travel blog by a global nomad
It was a ghastly wake up call… A cruise by Rubini Rook on Hooker Island, one of the southern most islands in the Franz Josef Land Archipelago. Normally, this would be the type of thing I would blow off – but I had never seen it, so….
Anyway, the wakeup call comes through at around 6am [...]
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As per usual, I am woken up at 7.30am by the PA crackling with the EL telling us where we are and what we are going to do. After breakfast, I went to Jasofirst talk on polar bears. Then I spent a chunk of the morning doctoring those photos for the second talk this [...]
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Got woken up with the 7.30pm cry over the PA… Then had to get up and have breakfast as I had to deliver my global warming talk (something which fortunately requires next to no preparation for me!). Then after that, for some reason I was pretty tired so had a powerkip. I guess all of [...]
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The day we were scheduled to approach the north pole began as any other. Viktor (Expedition Leader) woke us up over the PA system at 7.30am. I think I fell back asleep until 8.15am and then got up. It was ironic that the closer we got to the north pole, the hotter my cabin became on this [...]
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Well, today was a very lazy day! I did not have any obligation and I’m afraid I spent the vast majority of it reading the book, “Bushwacked” so I could give it back to the passenger who leant it to me…
Anyway, last night was yet another poor night’s sleep as I failed to get much [...]
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