Let’s keep going with the winter and ice content! It’s a new year and it doesn’t look like there’s going to be much international travel in 2022 either but that’s no excuse for not writing about it. So today we’re having some really cold content: what to wear in Svalbard in winter – and literally … More What to wear in Svalbard in winter
I’ve been yearning just a little bit to go to Svalbard lately and I knew I wanted a post about the place in the Polar Bear Winter Festival, because what’s more wintery than a frozen archipelago in the High Arctic? But I wasn’t sure what to write about. So I had a look at what … More Svalbard: the polar bear story
The third post of the Polar Bear Winter Festival is another winter-themed one – well, an ice-and-snow-themed one, anyway. It’s a Travel Library post and it’s all about A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter, the Austrian wife of a scientist of some kind turned fur trapper who spent a year living with … More Travel Library: A Woman in the Polar Night
In November 2015, I went to Svalbard – that’s those really cold polar bear-infested islands right up north. It was amazing and I’ve since calculated that I was among the northernmost 0.004% of people in the world, which is quite a claim – that more than 99.99% of people on the planet are south of … More How to travel to Svalbard
In 2015 I went to Svalbard because it was cheaper and logistically easier to go to the High Arctic than northern mainland Norway. Obviously. It was November. Svalbard in November has twenty-four hour darkness and it’s cold. Very cold. This is a huge frozen archipelago where the polar bear reigns supreme. On my first full … More I nearly died on a dog sled
It’s December now so it’s past time to be thinking about winter trips – to Lapland, to the Arctic, to the cold and the snow and the Northern Lights. I like cold places and cold trips and I’ve made a little list of things you might want to take with you. 1) A hat with … More 10 Things to Take to the Arctic
My next big adventure is to Svalbard. In November. I know. I guess I’ve realised that was a bit of a mad idea. So I did some homework. I’m a big believer in doing some research, especially if you’re going somewhere special and there isn’t anywhere more special than Svalbard. So I needed to do … More Svalbard preparation
I Am A Polar Bear 