Svalbard Day 2: Tinayrebreen & Lilliehöökbreen
After breakfast and another safety briefing on the ship, we fitted ourselves with our musk boots for the week before one more separate orientation for kayakers. They love their orientations on this trip. After lunch we continued our course...
Svalbard Day 1: A Long Few Years to Longyearbyen
It took 3 years for us to get here, and it's finally time to explore Longyearbyen. FYI, if you missed it from yesterday's post when we first arrived, they DO stamp out your passport when arriving from Norway to Svalbard, even if Svalbard is considered a...
The Svalbardian Triangle: Pyramiden
Postponed 3 times over 3 years, we're finally making this voyage happen. It may not be starting off pretty once we arrived, but what matters is that we're here. Using miles for my first voyage on SAS Airlines, I spent only $70 to snag a Business...
You’re Going to Miss … Wales
PRESS play and read the post with the music . . . You’re going to miss signing up what feels like way more than an entire year in advance for a trip already postponed 3 times over 3 years. But perhaps it’s the freedom of the open road...
Meet The Polar Bears!
Just like we had committed to Wales last week, a trip postponed over 3 times the past 3 years due to the pandemic must eventually follow through in the world of monsooning. And so we finally will with our voyage to the north on Svalbard, with 17 monsooners -- 15...
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch … to Manchester
Waking up in Caernarforn, we spent the morning exploring the castle grounds where the investiture of the Prince of Wales took place in 1911 and again in 1969 for Prince Charles. After an hour here we then drove out for a detour to *inhale*...
Let’s Get “Snowdonia” Place Called Caernarforn
From our rest point in Broad Haven (which we should've stayed an extra night in), we set out after breakfast for a quick stop at the atmospheric 12th century grounds of St. Davids about 30 minutes north. We then took our time, 2 hours weaving along...
The Leaves Are “Rhossili” in the Winds of Pembrokshire
From Brecon Breacons we drove an hour's south to Swansea, Wales' second city after Cardiff and birthplace to Dylan Thomas and Catherine Zeta Jones, before stopping at the atmospheric Mumbles Pier: We then continued 40 minutes across the Gower...
Where Are We Now?
Where Are We Next?
