The 7th Continent
Ushuaia - known as the end of the world Antarctica has been on my bucket list for years but as I get seasick I never thought I would ever go. Life is too short so I decided to go regardless. I already knew that I wanted to do the long itinerary which included the Falklands and South Georgia as well as the Antarctic Peninsula. Lindsay had always said he didn’t want to go, so I knew I would have to share a cabin with someone I didn’t know. The only photo that survived my iPhone erasing. Jacket gratefully lent by Mary Getting to the end of the world takes some doing. Living in Australia means that you often have to take multiple flights when you go anywhere but this time I had to take five. When I made the booking through a travel site I actually didn’t know who the company doing the tour was but I was very happy when I got my paperwork and it said it was Quark Expeditions as I had read some good reviews about them. The ship I had chosen was new and had stabilisers which wou...