Mt William National Park

Saturday, July 13, 2013 Headed into the North East of Tasmania and the Mt William National Park.  First stop was the Low Head Lighthouse.  It was a cold and foggy morning and it was good to see the light house…

Tamar Valley

Friday, July 12, 2013 Travelled up the western Tamar Valley, from Launceston to Greens Beach and then headed to George Town for the night. First stop was the Tamar Island Wetlands where we walked the fog covered boardwalks in search…

Launceston

Tuesday, July 10, 2013 We couldn’t have wished for a better weather start of our trip in Tasmania. We landed yesterday, picked up luggage and rental car, checked in to Hotel Charles Launceston, and promptly went for a walk to stretch the…

Arrival in Tasmania

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 After a 48 hour delay in San Francisco due to an “aircraft incident”, we have successfully made it to Australia. First stop was Sydney where we rushed to make our connection and failed. As a result,…

San Francisco

Tuesday, July 2, 2013 Arrived back in San Francisco officially bringing Leg 1 of our trip to an end.  It is good to back, even if it is only for 5 days. And the weather gods are being good to…

Leg 1: Europe and the White Sea

May – June, 2013 Leg 1 was a great start to the trip. Caroline started in London and then sailed to Hamburg, through the Kiel Canal to Flensburg, Aalborg, Skagen and Oslo. At Oslo a short flight took her to…

Churt, Farnham

Thursday, June 27, 2013 Travel day to see long time friend Dan, Lisa and James. Amazing drive from Heathrow through some beautiful countryside and tiny lanes to Churt. A little unfortunately it was raining most of the time. Dan and Lisa…

Gent – Gent – Ypres.

Friday and Saturday, June 21-22, 2013 Had a wonderful stay with Hilde, Yaron, Moos and Liran in Gent. Moos kindly gave up his room for us which was very nice of him. We talked, ate, drunk and just relaxed with…

Groningen

Had a wonderful stay with our friends Heleen and Mark in Groningen, Netherlands. Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Headed North to the coast enjoying a drive around the countryside. Lovely canals, tree lined roads, windmills, flat fields, bicycles and tiny hamlet…

Tromsø (again)

Stopped in sleepy Tromsø before our flight to Amsterdam.  Said goodbye to friends and family on The World and watched her sail out of town. And thus ends our expedition to the The White Sea.

Honningsvåg

Sunday, June 16, 2013 Honningsvåg is a sleepy town with one main tourist attraction, the North Cape.  Instead of driving out to most northerly point of mainland Europe, which is not part of mainland Europe, we went for a lovely…

Murmansk

Saturday, June 15, 2013 Murmansk is the home of the Russian Navy’s Northern fleet as well as nine nuclear powered ice breakers.  In the morning we went for a city highlights bus tours stopping to see Alyosha the defender of…

Furthest North

Our Journey will take us half around the world, but today is likely to be the furthest point North we will go. The ship made it to North 80° 24′ 13.23″, East 52° 4′ 16.82″ before turning around and heading South…

Franz Josef Land

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 After a day at sea we arrived at Franz Josef Land. Look it up. We were far north on the map, very far north actually. Never even thought about getting here. But then again… this was…