Grants on Tour

Det fortjener de, vi er glade i å reise, noe vi har gjort mye og kommer til å fortsette med. Dette er en ekspedisjon, det presiserer...

En litt seinere frokost gjør ingen ting og bølgene har ikke gjort oss mindre sultne. I dag skal vi ha en dag med sjøutsikt på alle...

Today we woke up with the ship approaching Stanley. A quick trip to the bow to watch for wildlife did not result in the hoped for siting...

Day 2 started with a visit, using zodiacs, to West Point Island. Here we hitched a lift with a Land Rover, driven by the couple managing...

You may think that a day at sea between Punta Arenas and The Falkland Islands would be a day of inactivity...... Think again! We had...

Today started with a light breakfast at 0430 before leaving the Mandarin Oriental in Santiago and heading for the airport. The...

Today has been at a slower pace. We checked in with Hurtigruten at the hotel in advance of tomorrows departure South. The rest of the...

Next stop Santiago, after a 4 1/2 hour flight from Rio yesterday. The flight should've been an hour shorter but we had to fly around a...

After a 14 hour flight we arrived in Rio de Janeiro and the driver took us to J W Marriott hotel on Copacabana Beach. We had booked a...

After many weeks of planning and preparation we are finally ready to go. This is a trip we have dreamed about for a very long time. With...

Three weeks left before we depart. This week we received all our travel documents for the trip, including lots of additional information...

Here's the link to the trip to Artarctica Her kommer linken til turen til Antarktis https://www.hurtigruten.com/nb-no/expeditions/cruise/...

The last two weeks we've been working on getting clearance from a local doctor to travel to Antarctica and final approval from...

Yesterday we worked on getting the travel insurance arranged. Now its in the box. Going to Antarctica on an expedition has certain...

19th November is the start of a month long adventure to the South: South America, South Georgia, Southern Ocean, towards the South Pole....

It's getting hot at middag these days, around 42C. But the desert at sunrise is a mere 25C. Last Saturday we got up at 4am and were in...

Vi hadde en fantastisk oppvåkning i ørkenen i dag. Det var magisk, men litt kjølig så vi varmet oss med bål😃. På vei hjem fikk vi møte...

Før vi drar på en så stor reise som vi skal seinere i år, har det vært mye planlegging. Men vi liker å være tidlig ute og godt forberedt,...

We are Al and Åshild, a couple of globetrotting over 60s sharing experiences along the way. We have been living in Abu Dhabi for more...