Category: Svalbard Triangle

Today’s Daily Program: We set the clocks back last night, gaining us an extra hour’s sleep. What bliss. We’ll get one more, too, and then no more time zone changes…

Today’s Daily Program: What’s the best way to celebrate a full circumnavigation of Spitsbergen, plus an epic series of landings, zodiac cruises and wildlife spottings? You might be tempted to…

Today’s Daily Program: We awaken to more stellar weather, and an even better view: It’s hard to believe that we’ve already crested the halfway mark of this trip, if not…

Today’s Daily Program: We are woken by David’s dulcet tones once more: “It’s 7 am, and we have more bears off to port… four bears, including a mother and her…

This post contains photos of dead and dismembered animals. “Svalbard is the realm of silence, ice and light.” – Fridtjof Nansen We awaken to the cliffs and glaciers of Alkefjellet…

“Where does the strange attraction of these polar regions come from, so powerful, so stubborn, that after returning from them we forget all the moral and physical fatigue, and think…

There’s no way to sugarcoat a 4 am wake-up. They’re all rotten. At least we went to bed at a reasonable hour last night, though the Radisson Blu has to…

It’s been a lovely couple of weeks in Scotland. From the stone-ringed streets of Oban to the misty hills of the small isles, from the wild winds of Skye to…

Some days are easier than others. The day before a big departure is never easy, particularly when we’re facing down back-to-back travel days as we fly from Edinburgh to Paris…

It always takes time to settle into a new location, though it feels like we’ll scarcely have the chance before we’re on our way to France – which itself is…