First leg of the journey is a short hop to Paris from Heathrow, followed by a 14 hour flight to Santiago, the capital of Chile. After that it's a 4 hour flight to Punta Arenas, where we will board the boat that will be our home for four days.
I can't help but think that this is a pretty tiring journey but Darwin's HMS Beagle left Plymouth in May 1825 and didn't return for five years. It was an epic journey just to get there.
The original captain of The Beagle, Pringle Stokes, couldn't handle it and in the desolate land of Tierra del Fuego, he locked himself in his cabin for 14 days and eventually shot himself!
Roughly 24 hours in an aeroplane is not exactly a ball of laughs, but I don't intend to go the same way as Stokes.
Speak to you on the otherside of the planet.
Louay
