The view or two from my "office"

[RooFlyer]

dork in a red suit office. Floating on the ocean approximately 82° north.



Always protected by nice young ladies with rifles and impact exploding bullets

 

[SYD]

dork in a red suit office.

Hopefully easier for the rifle holders to differentiate between a polar bear and human!

 

[TheRealTMA]

Hopefully easier for the rifle holders to differentiate between a polar bear and human!

Between a Roo and a Bear. Easy. “Mary had a little lamb (roo) and she had a Bear. I’ve often seen her little lamb but I’ve never seen her …”.

 

[Flyfrequently]

Belated (by one day) birthday dinner in my "Hapi" place

- our local, we are the only patrons, across the road from the beach and 700 metres from home

 

[love_the_life]

dork in a red suit office. Floating on the ocean approximately 82° north.

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Always protected by nice young ladies with rifles and impact exploding bullets

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A question Rooey. Have Ponant managed to improve their parkas? When we were in Antarctica with them, the pockets were not water resistant and as a result any moisture, spray, snow got through to the inside (even when zipped up).

 

[RooFlyer]

A question Rooey. Have Ponant managed to improve their parkas? When we were in Antarctica with them, the pockets were not water resistant and as a result any moisture, spray, snow got through to the inside (even when zipped up).

i’m afraid I can’t help you on that. Mine hasn’t had the opportunity to get wet yet. but I’ll give it a try this afternoon.

But overall, I would say the parkad are not very good.

when booking, they ask you to do your measurements and send them on to get you the right parka size. On board you are just presented with the racks of parkers and asked to choose one. Guy handed me a 5XL and said that looks fine, tell the lady that that’s what you’re taking. Ummm. No. eventually, I took a 2XL and he was getting impatient with me to move on.

The transparent room card holder on the sleeve isn’t big enough to show the barcode that they scan when you get on and off so you have to take it out every time.

The inner of the Parka isn’t separatable from the outer like the Silversea ones, so if you just want waterproofing, you’ve got to take the thermal insulation as well. Everyone is saying that they get really hot in them.

 

[Captain Halliday]

Guy handed me a 5XL and said that looks fine,

Obviously confident you’d enjoy the catering.

 

[RB]

Gjirokaster Albania
We have a great rooftop at our apartment


Part of the view from the castle today

 

[OZDUCK]

Extime J Lounge CDG. There are outside views but it seems pretty quiet nearby.

Waiting to board an EY A380. We were here by ourselves at first as we stayed nearby to CDG and got an early shuttle. Food at breakfast time is nothing exciting but ok. It was lovely and quiet early on but now everybody urgently needs to ring someone else and have a long discussion.



Small hot selection.

 

[OZDUCK]

And now on board - seat 12K -and about to switch off.

 

[love_the_life]

i’m afraid I can’t help you on that. Mine hasn’t had the opportunity to get wet yet. but I’ll give it a try this afternoon.

But overall, I would say the parkad are not very good.

when booking, they ask you to do your measurements and send them on to get you the right parka size. On board you are just presented with the racks of parkers and asked to choose one. Guy handed me a 5XL and said that looks fine, tell the lady that that’s what you’re taking. Ummm. No. eventually, I took a 2XL and he was getting impatient with me to move on.

The transparent room card holder on the sleeve isn’t big enough to show the barcode that they scan when you get on and off so you have to take it out every time.

The inner of the Parka isn’t separatable from the outer like the Silversea ones, so if you just want waterproofing, you’ve got to take the thermal insulation as well. Everyone is saying that they get really hot in them.

And we thought they were pretty ordinary and didn't bother taking them home. Left them onboard.

 

[RooFlyer]

Raudfjorden, Svalbad



The lovely and demure Sasha from Russia on the edge of the ice floes, north of Spitzbergen, packing heat.