Author: Andrew Reilly
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Settling in at Titicaca – taking it easy to acclimatise to altitude
I haven’t been doing very well with the travel blogging yet, have I? We’ve had an eventful week on the steaming Amazon on board the Delfin II and I haven’t posted a single photo or even a story! In my defence, there were no radio waves, and no time to write. In the nature of…
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Arrived Safely in Lima
Getting to the airport in Sydney as early as we did turned out not to be too helpful, although it probably did help a little with the Sydney traffic. The check in counters for our flight didn’t open until 08:00 anyway. Well, they did open a few minutes early, and at least we were close…
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Less than a week until blast-off again!
This time we are headed for South America, specifically Chile and Peru. The plan is (roughly): Peruvian Amazon Lake Titikaka (3812m: beware of altitude sickness – hope the tablets work) Cusco and Machu Picchu (2430m) Atacama Desert (2407m) Santiago and Valparaíso Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island) Chiloé Patagonia That means that we need to pack…
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Home again
Quick place holder to let everyone know that we made it home without much grief or incident. There are a backlog of half written stories and many days of photos to catch up on, and we hope to get around to that over the next few days, as we recover from time zone differences, piles…
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Hurtigruten – Tromsø to Kirkness
The trip back from Lyngen to Tromsø was longish, if uneventful. Besides the driver, we were accompanied back to town by one of the young (Australian) staff, who needed to get some tax-related paperwork sorted out, so that they could pay her. Even though it was “day light” (really civil twilight, but brighter than night)…
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Back in the arms (tentacles?) of the internet
Bit of a no news day today, but the good part is that after dragging our uselessly wheeled luggage through the snow for five minutes this morning, the hotel in Trondheim (Clarion) had a room ready for us before nine o’clock. So we checked in to our really very nice room, established internet connectivity and…
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More Abisko adventures
Yesterday we went on a guided snow shoe hike that took up almost all of the daylight hours (about four: ten to a bit after two.) Easier going and more enjoyable than either of us expected, although I learned that puffing and panting when going up hill leads to fogging and then icing of glasses.…
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Abisko, eventually
In our last installment, we were safely aboard the train to Abisko, and getting ready to bunk down in our sleeper carriage. So far so good… Things started to get a bit weird when we were woken by a previously unnoticed alarm mechanism at about ten to six. Since our change at Kiruna wasn’t due…
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Remembering Stockholm
Written on the train from Stockholm, more on which in another post. Stockholm was lovely. No actual snow, although the forecast did threaten a light fall at one stage, it must have happened somewhere else. I made good use of my heavy Norona jacket, but that was about it. Normal shoes and jeans, interchanging between…
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Arrived safely at the hotel in Stockholm
I’m afraid we were having too much fun in Amsterdam to do much blogging, although there are some good stories to tell. I’ll post photos and tales ASAP. For now just a quick note that after getting up really early (six!) this morning, it’s now ten to three and I’ve connected to the hotel Wi-Fi.…