Category: Preparations

7 May 2011 – Loading the ship

After (unintentional) 40 hours of travelling, I arrived in Punta Arenas, Chile. Some of it was due to the rather interesting fact that the Chileans use a different local time at the moment than we assume they do in the UK. Hence my 2 hour stay in Santiago de Chile was cut down to 50 minutes, which was not really enough to catch my flight down to Punta Arenas. But in the end it really does not matter whether you spend 34 hours or 40 hours on airplanes and in airports – it is simply a long, long day. The view out of the airplane was however very rewarding!

4 May 2011 – On the way to Punta Arenas!

Hi everybody,

As I am typing this, I am sitting at the airport of Miami, waiting for my connecting flight to Santiago de Chile. From there I will continue to Punta Arenas, the place where our ship and some of my colleagues are already waiting for the rest of us to arrive. The journey down there takes about 27 hours from London! Once I am there I will post a first little blog, hopefully with a shiny picture of the ship and us working hard to get the ship ready for our departure.

Cheers, Tina