Hi All, Today was the first physical part of the expedition where we hiked to the Glaciar Martial, the Martial Glacier, from 7.45am to 13.30pm. The first goal of this exercise was to put into practice what we had learnt on safety and on the few knots...
Lire la suiteHi All, This morning was focused on meeting the 2041 team, learning safety rules, and getting prepped for the hike of the glacier we'll be doing tomorrow morning. We were given more information on the communication we could have with the outside world...
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Hi All, The two students and I moved from our B&B to our superb hotel called Hotel Del Glaciar, just after lunch. It is the highest located hotel of Ushuaia and is not far from the Martial Glacier. We had to take a taxi and went up and up and up on nerver-ending...
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Hi All, After a slow start this morning, I decided to go and visit Ushuaia's National Park, renowned for the beauty of its sceneries. I must admit I was hesitating at first to go and visit the park alone, but the owners of the B&B I'm staying at really...
Lire la suiteHi All, I'm now in Ushuaia. For more information, please see the tab called "The 2012 Expedition". Bon voyage! Caro
Lire la suiteHi All, My trip from Paris to Ushuaia was not uneventful. Here is why: I took my plane from CDG airport, near Paris, to Buenos Aires. Boarding the plane was, in this case, uneventful. I was seated in a row of 4, next to an elderly man and his son. Both...
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Hi All, Today, I visited a part of Ushuaia and the Maritime Museum of Ushuaia. I learned that the actual town of Ushuaia was born in 1884. It later became a military prison town from 1896. The local inhabitants, before the arrival of the Spanish in the...
Lire la suiteHi All, I think it was last Friday or Thursday that I received the British and French flags I had ordered for this trip. It is a tradition, from what I see from the previous expeditions' pictures, to bring your country's flag. Well, I'm lucky because...
Lire la suiteHi All, I'm going in THREE days!!!! Just enough time to read the tourism book I bought yesterday! I haven't had the time to organize my week-end in Ushuaia. Naughty me! Those who know me must say to themselves: "that's not the Caro we know who over-organizes...
Lire la suiteHi All, I went to see my GP last week to get a list of basic medicine for my trip. The list included anti sea-sickness, something for general pain relief, etc... When going to buy what was prescribed to me, I ended up buying loads of other stuff I didn't...
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