Approaching the pier in Ny-Ålesund (Photo © Joe Decker) A light rain fell in the morning as we set foot on the pier in Ny-Ålesun...

One needs a good sense of humour when  swimming in the Arctic at Gravneset (Photo © Joe Decker) This morning at 09:30 we all met in the...

Occupied and abandoned buildings in Barentsburg It was a fine sunny morning in Longyearbyen.   For most people joining us today t...

Windy day at Alkehornet (Photo © joe Decker) This morning we landed beneath an impressive triangular-shaped white cliff called Alkehorne...

Today we were enshrouded by fog all day long.   It was like an episode from Rod Sterling’s: The Twilight Zone .  Was there really a world ou...

Female Polar Bear with two cubs on a whale carcass. If someone had told you when you were a troubled teenager that one day you wo...

At 08:30 we started landing operations at Eolusneset in Sorgfjorden which is located in north east Spitsbergen near the entrance to ...

Snow falling at Monaco glacier. When we woke up this morning it was snowing outside!  Fantastic.  It never fails, e very time the first s...

The first thing on our agenda today was a welcome speech at 09:30 from the Captain in the Observation Lounge on deck seven.   The C...

Barentsburg pier (Photo © Joe Decker) I am sure that when you first arrived on MS Fram that it seemed like a lot was going on.  ...

  Our first landing of the day was at Alkehornet.  As usual there was a large heard of approximately 30 reindeer grazing peac...

Polar Bear scat!!! Because of the great distance involved we were not due to arrive at our landing site at Gnålodden until later in t...

  This morning we went Polar Bear watching from the Polar Cirkel boats.   If you’re not jealous, you should be.   It was an i...