Category: Travelling
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Jan Mayen 16th June 2026
We woke up this morning with a lot of trepidation to find the island completely lost in fog. We had been planning and studying the weather for days to see if we might get a chance to land. Jan Mayen is a remote volcanic island 500km of the east coast of Greenland administered by Norway.…
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Starting the Arctic Season
Another long travel day survived on the way north. Set out at 6am to fly out of Santiago over to Buenos Aires. Nice empty flight for the first leg. Then the usual run around Buenos Aires airport to get back on the plane for the second leg to Amsterdam. Plane was super full and sleep…
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Day 2 London travelling to Nepal 5th April
Day 2 of our journey to hike the EBC. Having a room with no window has its advantages as we slept most of the day away after our travels. Once up and about though it was time to start burning a trail around London. First stop was a pub to find mum some proper fish…
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Day 3 London travelling to Nepal 6th April
Day 3 of our trip to hike to EBC. We managed to rise slightly earlier but still quite jet lagged. Today we did some sightseeing as part of our hike. Our first stop was Portobello Road to see the market. It was amazing thought we were completely overwhelmed by the amount of items in the…
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Day 4 London travelling to Nepal 7th April
Day 4 of our journey to hike the EBC was pretty uneventful. It’s our last full day in London before we fly on to Nepal tomorrow. Today was all about finding the last few items on our list before we go. We started with a pub breakfast at the Blackbird. Best breakfast so far and…
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Day 5 Flying to Nepal via India 8th April
Day 5 of our journey to Nepal to hike the EBC. Today we are on our way to Nepal. We slept in a bit this morning so had to rush pack up the last of our stuff and checkout. We then headed over to our favourite pub for our last possibly familiar meal. Then it…
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Day 6 Kathmandu Nepal 9th April
Day 6 of our journey to hike the Everest Base Camp hike. Today was quite a full day and I have so many pictures and videos! We started with a traditional breakfast at 8 before being picked up by the owner of our tour company for a meeting in his office. Here he gave us…
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Day 7 Kathmandu Nepal City Tours
Day 7: We have a super busy day of guided tours around Kathmandu. Our guide Kedar picked us up at 9 and took us tonshow us four of the best sites in Kathmandu. Firstly we headed to a wonderful temple called Swayambhunath Stupa or better known as the “monkey temple”to tourists. One of the oldest…
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Day 8 Kathmandu to Lukla attempt
Day 8 and unfortunately it was a bit of a bust. Today was the day we were supposed to fly up to Lukla airport on the mountain. It is considered one of the most dangerous airports in the world due to extremely short 527-meter runway,12% steep gradient, and high altitude (9,334 ft). Unfortunately all this…
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Day 9 Kathmandu to Lukla to Phakding
Day 9 – what a long day! We got up at 4:30 again to head to the airport to take our helicopter flight. We had been told it was leaving at 6:45 but once we got there it was clear that wasn’t happening. They weighed us and our bags then checked us in. Then we…