well today was the day i spent surrounded by lots of blue and white cold stuff. spectacular. also have just eaten a plate scrumptious plate of fish and chips for $10 (thats about 3 pounds)i'm doing good.got up too early for ease and boiled some eggs readt for lunch on fox glacier. it was about a 45 min walk to the front cliff like end of the ice (incidently our guide was called cliff) that walk felt a lot longer on teh way back as was bursting for teh toilet....

  this morning we left early and have arrived in franz josef. on way stopped off at an odd sort of museum run by a guy called pete and all about the good ald days when men were men and deer were running free (much to the mens consternation) so they were hired to hunt the deer that were over running the place. they flew around in helicopters in the wilderness and shot them (then sold them as veal). next they descovered that deer farms were a good idea so...