Travel blog by a global nomad
I realise 13C might be a tad bit nippy for most but I must confess, I am finding it a little tropical after a year in polar regions! I arrived in Sydney this morning (feeling not so bad thanks to 3 empty seats next to me on the plane…) and was awfully relieved to see [...]
Ok - I have just touchdown in Tokyo, flying for the first time on JAL. And so for the first time (for me) I got to watch our arrival with the forward facing, real time camera on the big screen…. And it is WEIRD! I mean, you begin to appreciate what the pilots see a whole [...]
Cripes! Finally back in a civilised place like Vancouver and I am suddenly bereft of the foreign cultural input that I usually find fodder to write about! I mean, not even the sudden prominance of people of non-caucasian appearance particularly makes an impact as foreign faces because I am so used to being surrounded by [...]
My most endearing memory of this brief sojourn in Magadan will be listening to the American ‘hunners’ at Magadan airport…
Usually hunners go to the Kamchatka Peninsula but these Cabello-clad dudes from the States were in the snow confines of Magadan. My first sight was not of them but a great big bleeding head wrapped in sacks [...]
It could have been touch and go there but despite hazy conditions due to high clouds and a neverending gentle downfall of fine powder snow, I made it out of Kupol and flew to Bilibino. The helicopter trip from Kupol is the bit least guaranteed so to get to Bilibino is cause for celebration – [...]
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