We’re 15 Years Old!

SAS-2025 is already long gone, but a tale from the Thai side still needs to be told!… So, after the business part of the event (which, it goes without saying, was great), we needed to unwind and hang out with SAS participants in a more relaxed atmosphere – I call it “decompression”. And that’s why […]

Easter Island – done and dusted. But I’ve still got more tales from the Kamchatkan side to tell – including this one about… a volcano; fancy that?! After a miserable first few days in Kamchatka – miserable due to the incessant rain spoiling our plans – the weather finally came to its senses to give […]

Hi everyone! Yesterday I was lucky enough to personally watch the landing of the Soyuz MS-27 descent module from the RKA Mission Control Center in the town of Korolyov just outside Moscow. And it was a wholly interesting event! Surprisingly, taking photos was allowed, with the press up on the balcony reporting live. I too […]

In this, my last post in the series on Easter Island, a few words on day-to-day practicalities: how to get there, where to stay, and how to get around the island. There are two ways to get to Rapa Nui: either a five-hour flight from Santiago (and getting to Santiago from anywhere on the planet […]

…That’s a rhetorical question. Of course, a Kamchatka expedition begins… at the airport :). But it depends on where you’re flying in from. For me, my trips to Kamchatka have pretty much always started at Sheremetyevo Airport (Terminal B for many years now), with the whole crew traditionally meeting up in “Magadan”… // Which reminds […]

Still on with my intercontinental switcheroo, today we’re back on Easter Island!… The topic of volcanoes is really interesting and diverse. It’s not just volcanos’ cones, the lava that sometimes flows out of them, and the smoke from eruptions. There are also all the colors, hot springs, and geysers – which all come under the […]