Pourquois-Pas? Paris
After living through a fraction of what the French Antarctic explorers endured down south in the 18th century, I wanted to get a sense of what drove Jean Baptiste Charcot […]
Category Archives: Europe
Copenhagen – What to eat, or not
Just another ordinary city post After cruising around the Arctic and laying eyes on one polar bear kilometers away from our small inflatable boat, I flew down to Copenhagen for […]
Arctic Fever – Days 8 & 9 – Pieced Out
Day 8 July 7, 2022 Hornsund We sailed towards the fjords in Hornsund, known for its frozen landscape and first discovered by Jonas Poole, a British explorer who named Hornsund […]
Arctic Fever – Day 7 – On the Rocks
July 6, 2022 Varsolbukta, Bellsund In the A.M. we chilled out and sat through slides of bird migration and an instructive assessment of photos shot by hobbyists onboard. The ship […]
Arctic Fever – Day 6 – Off White
July 5, 2022 Monacobreen – North West Svalbard When I think of Monaco, I roll my eyes. But what do I know? It’s not just about lavish lifestyles, yachts or […]
Arctic Fever – Day 5 – On the Edge
July 4, 2022 Pushing north…80 ‘ 52N Dream – Laid eyes on groups of polar bears wandering around from ice sheet to ice sheet, some with cubs trailing behind, some […]
Arctic Fever – Day 4 – Foxy Brown
July 3, 2022 By now, I settled in to the routine. In between looking out for wildlife and stuffing our faces, we sat through presentations of nature related photograph analysis, […]
Arctic Fever – Day 3 – Polar. what? No!
July 2, 2022 Somewhere up on the Northwest corner was Indre Norskoya. Gloomy skies and intermittent rain reflected what went down here 400 years ago. Political and commercial chaos threatened […]
Arctic Fever – Days 1 & 2
Day 1: June 30, 2022 – Longyearbyen After a 3 hour flight from Oslo, we made it to Longyearbyen and boarded the Polar Expedition Ship a couple of minutes away […]
Arctic Fever – Oslo
It all happened out of the blue. Back in October 2021, I said yes to a photo of a polar bear and a city I could hardly pronounce. I booked […]
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