Day 53, 28.11.2018 , Vaitape, Bora Bora. So good they named it twice. We had a very early wake-up due to H having to have a conference call at a time convenient for Germany but we did get to see the sunrise lighting up Bora Bora as we approached the pass through the reef . …
Day 51, 26.11.2018 , Pape’ete, Tahiti We arrived in Pape’ete a day earlier than planned. The weather was steamy and tropical with low cloud over the mountain tops. H had recently been attempting to arrange an event for the ship’s crew in the Tahiti Pearl Beach Resort but misjudged how much interest hotel and catering …
Day 45, 20.11.2018 , Hanga Roa, Easter Island I was a bit sceptical at first about the need for local pilots for each tender boat but the Hanga Roa harbour approach was just jagged rocks and surf so maybe a local guide was not such a bad idea. H stayed aboard and I went for …
Day 40, 15.11.2018 , Cumberland Bay, Isla Róbinson Crusoe, Juan Fernández Islands, Chile. Isla Róbinson Crusoe, then known as Más a Tierra, was the not-entirely-voluntary home to the marooned Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk from 1704 to 1709. Robinson Crusoe is a fictional character by novelist Daniel Defoe but is believed to be mainly inspired by Selkirk. …
Day 37, 12.11.2018, Santiago de Chile. Sonja’s flight arrived from Heathrow an hour and a quarter late but that didn’t count as something going wrong as I was in a hotel just across the street and knew it was delayed. I had to wave a name-card with the hundred’s of other meeters and greeters for …
Day 36, 11.11.2018, Puerto Montt and Santiago, Chile. November 11th is a strange day when you live in the gap between the British Empire and a Unified Germany. The day from a churchy point of view is St Martin’s Day. In Germany this always involves an unfortunate goose being invited for dinner. At the 11th …
Day 34, 09.11.2018, Amalia Glacier and Torres del Paine NP, Chile, We had the morning weaving through very complicated mountainous islands and fjords. It’s a big landscape with no sign of human habitation anywhere. It must be really nasty in the winter. The last few miles to the glacier saw lots of mini-icebergs in the …
Day 32, 07.11.2018, Ushuaia, Argentina, Ushuaia is a former penal colony for Argentina on the Beagle Channel and is a place about as remote and desolate as it gets. This trip includes a few former people-dumping grounds. Madeira and Cape Verde (Portugal), New Caledonia (France) and Australia (UK) also share this fabulous honour. Arguably Robinson …
Day 29, 04.11.2018, Puerto Madryn, Patagonia, Argentina, Puerto Madryn is mainly an aluminium smelting town. We didn’t go downtown but it didn’t look too attractive from a distance. The town though is not the main reason for visiting here. We had a bus trip today to see some wildlife on the huge Valdes Peninsular. This is …
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Day 26, 01.11.2018, Buenos Aires, Argentina, H was busy so in the morning I went out on the streets of Buenos Aires by myself with bike. Mostly around the Casco Historico with its excellent neoclassical, art-nouveau and art-deco buildings and also around Puerto Madero with its derelict docklands turned entertainment/business centre. There were several demonstrations …