Category: Trip report
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A day of two halves
I did a last-minute check of the flight bookings just before leaving Sydney, and was disturbed to discover that the booking reference for the return flight from Svalbard to Tromsø was giving an error. I didn’t have time to investigate then, resolving to figure it out as soon as we were settled in Berlin. Today…
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Sightseeing Mitte
(Very) slow start to the day today: slept in until what turned out to be about 9AM: it was still dark as the inside of a cow. Strange: sunrise should have happened around 7:30. Is it that dark from clouds? No – it transpires that the hotel has a system of storm shutters which serve…
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Made it to Berlin
Plane to Singapore, plane to London, bus to Terminal 5 Heathrow, (bonus bag searches for both of us at security made us wonder if we’d make our connection, but we did) plane to BER, FEX (fast) train to just outside town (thanks to the nice lady who helped us buy tickets quickly as the train…
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Northern Lights – second approach – clock ticking
Checking that this thing still works. Seems to. The block editor thing is new, but appears to work. If you look down towards the bottom of the Adventures page, you’ll see one called “Northern Lights”, almost exactly ten years ago. We’re not going to exactly retrace those steps, but we’ll be visiting a couple of…
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Home again, safely
This is just a quick note to say that we have made it back to Sydney safely. The task of transferring and sorting photos from the trip must now begin, and we will have to get down stories of the travel in Antarctica fairly quickly, before the memories start to fade. So there will (yet)…
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Last day in Torres del Paine
Well that seems to have flown past, but I understand why. We spent a morning trying to get a replacement camera to meet us in Punta Arenas, but came to understand that it could not be done, (at least in that way). Cameras come with batteries in the box, and so cannot be shipped air-freight.…
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Travel days…
The 20th was our last full day on Chiloe, and we had an easy, cultural day. Drove to Dalcahue and caught the vehicular ferry to the island of Quinchao, just across the channel. Then drove to the town of Achao, about half way along. We walked along the waterfront, which has a shiny new board-walk,…
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Boating to Chelin and Quehui — Unesco church and walk on the beach
No road travel at all today! We started with a stroll down the hill to the hotel’s jetty, to board the Willichi again. All aboard, we set off in the direction of the island of Chelin, site of one of the sixteen Unesco-preserved wooden churches around Chiloe. Along the way, we passed a couple of…
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Punting the Chepu river and the sunken forest
Today started with another fairly long drive up to the north-west corner of Chiloe, to the Chepu river. There we met Seignor Alfonzo, our river guide and boat driver. Apparently there was a strong earthquake some time ago, and the resulting tsunami pushed 20km up the Chepu river valley, killing an area of riverside forrest.…