Primeras semanas en España tras este año polar. Una de las preguntas más frecuentes es “cómo está resultando la adaptación”. Uno responde casi por inercia que “rara”. Y es cierto que está siendo rara, pero quizá por motivos diferentes a los que esperaba. Los únicos detalles que parecieron ajustarse un poco al guion de una […]

 My first Thanksgiving. I had seen pictures and heared about celebrations at Pole, but it’s not the same to live it from inside. One starts the day before preparing pies, etc. In the morning, I volunteered for turkey carving and then dinner is server in three turns, since we are about 200. I was […]

 Already one hour here, doesn’t time fly? If the full ‘day’ is going to be like this, it’s going to be tough. But this is a fascinating place. I like sitting in the dinning room and look through the window to the frozen ocean which extends where the sight can’t reach. I like how […]

 I profit the spare hours we have while we are blocked at Christchurch (CHC) to post my fist entry in this blog. I came to the Antarctic Center where we have free internet. In the hotels you pay for trafic, 5NZD for 50Mb. Sometimes it may take 3h, other just 15 minutes to run […]