by Jessica Thompson | Jan 17, 2022
There is so much more to Tierra del Fuego than just a stopping point en route to Antarctica. When our trip further south was cancelled in January 2022, we were devastated but we quickly started to make the most of our time in Ushuaia, visiting penguins on Isla...
by Jessica Thompson | Jan 15, 2022
When penguins mate, they do so for life. That’s what makes them such attractive icons for love and romance. It is often said that a male penguin will present a female with a pebble as part of the courtship ritual – not unlike the presentation of an engagement...
by Jessica Thompson | Jan 14, 2022
Following Oceanwide Expeditions’ cancellation of our Hondius trip to Antarctica – and, of course, the surreal mixture of disappointment and relief that went with it – we decided not to cancel our flight to Ushuaia. We had, after all, packed for...
by Jessica Thompson | Jan 11, 2022
Disaster has struck, as I knew it would. Our trip to Antarctica has been cancelled for the second time. I did record my anxieties with regard to relying on other people in a previous entry and, since then, all of my concerns have come to pass. Yes, we managed to...
by Jessica Thompson | Jan 10, 2022
We’re almost two years into the pandemic now and yet Covid-19 still rears its ugly head at the most inopportune moments. We jumped the first hurdle. The PCR test we took in Dublin on Friday came back negative, allowing us to travel to Buenos Aires via London....
by Jessica Thompson | Jan 5, 2022
There’s a phrase I read in Sir Ranulph Fienne’s biography of Ernest Shackleton, which really stuck with me to the point that I flicked through the book – simply entitled ‘Shackleton’ – all over again just to find it. Shackleton was...
