If you have endured my 8 min audio ramble (first audio post) you would have picked up that my Mac died the moment I landed in Antarctica, and as left me a bit out in the cold (pardon the pun) with regards to blogging power.
Thank goodness therefore that I packed my trusty Blackberry, otherwise i would have been completely lost. Fortunately it uses a MicroSD card so it is compatibale with almost…
If you have endured my 8 min ramble you would have picked up that my Mac died the monent I landed in Antarctica. ith it I lost all my fancy video software and use of most of the peripheral items like my Sony Handycam and my iPhone. Thank goodness I therfore packed my Blackberry,as otherwise i would be completely lost. With its MicroSD it becomes compatibale with any computer and therfore i can use…
To be in Antarctica is one thing but to talk about it coherently for 8 minutes is something entirely different. If you do choose to listen to this audio please excuse how I ramble, its partly due to the effects of mild hypothermia and partly to do with how much detail I am trying to avoid going into due to how much has happened in such a short time. All I wanted to really to do in this 1st post was…
We were due to fly tonight at around 11:00pm, but due to really bad weather in Antarctica, it’s been put back untill tommorow at 7:00am.
When we get to Antarctica we will be landing at Novo “The Russian Base” on a blue ice Runway. We will stay there for about 3 days whilst we sit out the next batch of bad weather, waiting for our transfer flight to come and pick us up Sunday.
With regards today I spent the morning sorting my Antarctic kit and getting it loaded onto the plane, in…

Today was the first day and I’am totally worn out. We left Heathrow last night at 7:20PM and we arrived in South Africa at 9:30AM Local time. I spent most of the flight watching movies including “500 days of Summer” and the outstanding “UP”, I then watched “Moon” and “Land of the Lost” (which was surprisingly good) and had lots of parallels between the movie and the adventure we were all embarking on.
The day was full, mostly with things like …. waiting,making expensive mobile phone…