The Big Boat

 Today our bus leaves the hotel at 0550am in the morning! Off to BA airpoprt and then a flight to Ushuaia which is in Tierra del Fuego on the arse end of Argentina. We are driven around for a while

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and then have an average lunch.

We are then dropped off at our boat which will take us to the South Pole and beyond. It is a very French enterprise and all announcements are bilingual which is higlhy irritating, but then again there is the food, so we will cut these geeks from Gaul some slack.

Fortunately we did not bring a cat along as we would not have had room to swing it in our cabin which is actually very comfortable. The other passengers seem to be quite old.









Nice dinner chatting with a couple of italian journalists/photographers.

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