2025 Antartica

Today we visited the capital of the Falklands - Stanley. It's really the only town of any size here. We headed out for a dry landing,...

Today we have 2 stops in the Falklands. The first is called Carcass where we opted to take a 2.5 mile hike which passes some Penguin...

We had a 6:30 AM wake-up call this morning for breakfast, and then headed to our first stop at Saunders Island. At this cove there are 4...

After a light snack on the ship we did another landing on Saunders to have a BBQ lunch and see a sheep farm. Before we left the ship we...

Today is a full sea day and the seas are quite rough so most people are taking some sort of motion sickness medicine which makes everyone...

We left on busses to the airport to await our charter flight. Not much of note it was a 3 hour flight which landed in a tiny airport with...

We had breakfast on the 31st floor of the hotel which had beautiful views of the city. View from the restaurant at the top of the hotel...

We had a quite early start to the day getting up at 3:15 to get ready for our 5 Am departure to the airport. When we looked out on the...

We got up early to meet our tour guide to do the Rio tour. We ha contracted with a private company that Conrad found called Be Free...

We started the day in the Gold lounge for breakfast and it was lovely. They had many different fresh fruits, interesting pastries and...

We flew overnight from JFK on an American Airlines 777-200 in business class. Leaving from New York was the best option for a direct...

In a few days we will head to our long awaited trip to Antartica, South Georgia and the Falklands. We have a stop in Rio de Janeiro on...