Month: December 2010
A winter holiday in Fort William...
At breakfast this morning, Mr Peacock, Colonel Mustard, and Miss Scarlet found the grizzled remains of the savaged Christmas cake on the kitchen floor. This was obviously not going to be an open and shut case...
La Plagne is a decent resort for mixed ability ski groups. It has lots of accommodation options including luxury chalets; sadly, ours was not one of these although it had been booked as such...
After the difficulties of pushing through the sea ice, we finally made it to the Antarctic continent on Christmas Day...
Yet another year of adventuring is drawing closed. But, spring isn't that far away and the rock climbing shoes can come out again soon! For now though, here are my highlights of the 2010 blogging year...
The glorious winter weather held on for Xmas...
The last week has been a slow journey of winding our way through the sea ice of the Weddell Sea, occasionally getting stuck for between 15 minutes and 8 hours at a time.
-7 degrees C; time for a BBQ!
For the last few days we’ve been trying to find a route through the sea ice toward our destination...