Our final day in Norway and Tromso sees us carted off into the snowy backdrop of Tromso on the island of Kvaloya (whale island). We are here to see other dogs behind…
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Kirkenes is at the north-eastern end of Norway, 10 kilometres from the border with Russia and 400 kilometres inside the Arctic Circle, further east than Istanbul and St Petersburg. Kirkenes is not…
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In some mad moment of wanderlust we booked a wild, windy, winter wonderland on the frozen fjords of Norway in the Arctic Circle in Winter. Land of Vikings, Midnight Sun, Northern Lights, majestic…
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The wild frozen and barren wastelands of the north, also known as Yorkshire, is the focus of today’s visit, specifically the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Located just off the M1 motorway at West…
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Today is New Years Day. Start of a new day, a new year and a new you according to Sam. So with this in mind, we finds ourselves exercising and extreme dog…
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Comet C/2013 X1 (PANSTARRS) currently in the constellation of Andromeda at a brightness of magnitude 9.2. Comet C/2013 X1 is expected to get brighter with perihelion, its closest approach to the sun at a…
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Tuesday November the 3rd sees us limping lamely along to the London Science Museum (£ Free), currently hosting the stunning Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition, a little steep at £14 each…
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I am, by every definition, a nerd, a geek, a space nut, from astronomy and astrophotography to astronauts and Apollo from aged 4 to 44 (as I currently stand anyway). Readers of…
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Apollo 7 Astronaut Walt Cunningham was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 7, the first manned mission in the Apollo program after the fatal cabin fire of Apollo 1. Today I’m meeting…
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Conquest castles, celts, cakes, cawl, sheep, St David, daffodils, Davy Gam, Dylan Thomas, rarebit, rebels, leeks and us. They’ve even got a dragon on their flag. This isn’t Westeros, its Wales boyo.…
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Sunspot 2396 has grown rapidly over the past few days and yesterday I had a chance to quickly capture between the clouds. Sunspot 2396 stretches more than 150,000 km (93,000 miles) from…
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Stanage Edge, a gritstone escarpment like a broken boulder backbone of Britain past Hathersage in the Peak District. A geological gap of the Dark Peak and the White Peak stretching for 3…
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We’re on tour, a chance to take a trip in the new car and test it, test the sat-nav and ultimately test our patience when we won’t find anywhere. So we’ve gone…
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We’re off over the border into the wild and windy badlands of the Peak District in Derbyshire at Speedwell Cavern and The Devil’s Arse Peak Cavern. Off to see how the other…
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Moving around the galactic circles that I do (even though I’m not a heavenly body or will ever be accused of having a heavenly body), I’m up in Manchester meeting meeting Apollo, Skylab…
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Hot on the heels of meeting high flyer Eileen Collins, today I’ve met Chuck Deiterich, NASA RETRO Flight Controller during the Apollo program, to attend his talk ‘A Tour of the U.S.…
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Today I met Eileen Collins, a former United States Air force Colonel, test pilot, instructor and NASA astronaut becoming the first female pilot and first female commander of the Space Shuttle logging…
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We’ve been roaming the Derbyshire Peak District for what now seems like hours in an attempt to find a suitable route to Stanage Edge. The area we are currently having some navigational…