After one night of sailing from Akureyri north for Greenland, by morning we crossed the Arctic Circle and spotted blue and fin whales swimming alongside us. Otherwise it was mostly a sea day where we stared endlessly into infinite waters. I handily found myself...
What a beautiful lazy morning in Reykjavik: Today at 9am we departed via chartered bus from the city hall of Reykjavik on a 6 hour trip to Akureyri, in the north of the country. The views outside while driving up western Iceland: After 7 hours of driving...
Nearly 6 years ago I made an impromptu decision to take 20 people to Antarctica with the help of Young Pioneer Tours and Oceanwide Expeditions. The result was legendary. Today I’m prepping for a return voyage with the very same companies for their northern...
Dearest readers, I’ll begin by documenting the longest domestic flight in the world on business class from Réunion to Paris. And then I’ll end with how I forced an emergency landing in Halifax, Nova Scotia for an in-flight medical emergency. Yeah, it...
More paradise awaits us in the final stop of our trip. After 3 days in Mauritius, the 4 of us leftover boarded Air Mauritius flight MK 238 at 3:30pm, landing 45 minutes later at 4:15pm in Réunion Airport. I’ve been hitting it out of the park with...
After 2 days in the Seychelles, we headed onwards to more of island paradise in Mauritius. I first heard of Mauritius back in 2009 when a former girlfriend of mine idealized it as her top honeymoon destination. It has never escaped my mind since, and after so many...
After a few days adventuring in Madagascar and picking up an extra monsooner we met at our hostel along the way, we flew out to the Seychelles (at Evan’s insistence a few months ago) on a 2.5 hour 4pm flight from TNR to SEZ. We landed at 7:35pm local time. ...
