I was on my third cup of tea over breakfast at the Hotel Sisimiut when Jan from Sisimiut Private Boat Safari called. Yes, it was unbelievably foggy outside, but some of the calmest waters occur after a heavy fog lifts he told me – so could I be ready in 15 minutes? Absolutely! We’d been…
When you start researching things to do around Sisimiut you very quickly come across excursions to Assaqutaq – an abandoned settlement about 10km away. The Hotel Sisimiut offers a boat tour to and from the settlement, but what I really wanted to do was take a boat out and then hike back. I contacted Jan from Sisimiut…
After 2 years of this blog, my friends joke that if I’m not posting about hikes or treks I’ve done, I’m posting about food. So they won’t be surprised that one of the very first things I did when planning my trip to Iceland was look up foodie tours 🙂 Specifically, I was looking for…
It was quite difficult to tell how many days I should allocate to exploring the area around Kangerlussuaq before starting the Arctic Circle Trail trek. There seemed to be a fair few options for things to do – the Russell Glacier, visiting the Greenland Ice Sheet at Point 660, Sugarloaf Mountain, Garnet Rock, a wildlife…
I’ve always loved stories and am an avid reader of fantasy novels. So of course the Icelandic Mythical Walk with its focus on Icelandic folk tales, piqued my interest – particularly after hearing about Icelandic trolls during the In the Shadow of Vatnajökull trek, and the Hidden Folk (aka Elves) on the Laugavegur & Fimmvörðuháls trek with Icelandic…
Greenland during the summer is embraced by an eternal twilight. Read more about this amazing phenomenon in my latest blog post at Guide to Greenland: “Northern Lights in Greenland – the Midnight Sun“. Discover more about Greenland I have a large number of blog posts about Greenland, so feel free to read more about my…
Hi all – Just a quick note to let you know I’m disappearing for a bit… Where am I off to? Well, I start here (no surprises 🙂 ) Then head to Nepal for 2.5 months of hiking, and Kenya for a month before returning home to Australia for Christmas. I will catch up eventually…
On Day 5 of the 12-day Unplugged Wilderness Trek with Greenland Adventures by Icelandic Mountain Guides, I visited an abandoned WWII airfield code-named Bluie East Two. Read more about the history of the site, its current state and its future in my latest blog post at Guide to Greenland: “Exploring Bluie East Two – an…
I wasn’t going to write a summary post for my second year of full-time travel, but re-reading my summary from last year I realise that a lot has happened, and my life has taken some unexpected turns! So I changed my mind 🙂 Here is where I ended up going over the past year (you…
Having exhausted the main day hikes out of Ushuaia (well, except for the Martial Glacier, which didn’t seem too interesting) and not being terribly keen to pay to enter the Tierra del Fuego National Park again (I’d already done the best hike in the park – Cerro Guanaco – in 2016), I needed one more day-hike to…