Episode 6 Our first night after leaving Wrangel Island the heavens put on a show for us. Although the only colour that could be seen was through the camera lens it was still quite a show of swirling white light. It showed up green through the lens, and lasted a good half hour. Although there was quite a bit of cloud about we managed to see plenty. Our first stop along this north east coast of Russia as we head back towards Bering Strait was to be a small vill...

Late on a Friday afternoon they finished the car and David brought it back to the hostel. Next morning it was once again packed and prepared for departure. This time we did get out of Bishkek though not as early as originally hoped. David wanted to give it a bit of a test run before leaving Kyrgyzstan so we set off towards Izzykol, the big lake in the east of the country at the foot of the Tein Shein Mountains. The snow from the previous weekend still lin...

Episode 1A very cheery hello to all my adoring fans, I’m back again! Well, here we are again, back in Arundel.The summer wore on hot and humid. The turtles came and laid and the eggs turned into hatchlings and ran down the beach to the sea, never to be seen again most likely. Not many nesting turtles on Oaks beach this last summer and the hatching rate wasn’t real good either, never-the-less L assisted in launching a good number of them.I did get to ...

Episode 16 We arrived in Berlin fairly early in the day so after finding our hotel we left the car in the car park and took the Uban (underground) into the city centre.For those of you who are old enough to remember the Berlin Wall, the main city centre from before Soviet times was behind the wall in the Eastern Sector of the City. Since the wall came down it has once more regained its old place in the scheme of things and a stroll down Unden den Linden is a st...