There are not enough superlatives to describe our ten day trip to Antarctica. But I will do my best to describe our exploration of the Antarctic peninsula, journeying to a latitude of 65 degrees south on our planet earth. We embarked on our ship, the Ocean Victory, a purpose-built expedition and ice strengthened vessel, on Friday 7th December, and, after […]
We were almost going to give Zanzibar a miss. We had been having a bad week: Dave grazed Big Bertha against a gate post, our boiler had started to leak water, air had begun to escape from Big Bertha’s air suspension bellows and we received a large bill from MAN for last year’s wheel hub works. Oh, and did I […]
Sometimes you just need a break from the endless grind of truck life! I’m joking of course, but this holiday was booked before we started our overlanding adventure. Honest. Really! We parked Big Bertha at the Iberican Overlanders and departed Madrid bound for West Papua in Indonesia for a cruise around Raja Ampat onboard the Ombak Putih. We had a […]