Huckleberry Travel and Windstar in the Canary Islands, Madeira and Portugal!
Here’s what we’re doing this week!
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Full disclosure. This is not from our recent expedition. This was one or two before us. But it is a hilarious example of the amazing things you might encounter on your Antarctic journey.
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It’s like Bo Derek in “10” but without the cornrows.
We’re off to the Mediterranean! We’ll be sailing on Windstar Cruises tall-sail yacht from Rome to Barcelona, hitting all of the yachtsman’s harbors of the Riviera! Pay attention to our feed if you want to see what we’re up to! #180fromordinary
Early this morning, our ship navigated through pack ice that had broken off from Greenland. One guy on our expedition team said he’d never seen pack ice so far south, so, ahem, climate change is a “thing”, everybody. #auroraexpeditions Aurora Expeditions
We went to snorkel with massive manta rays last night, and it was absolutely incredible.
1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge is a fabulous property in our Virtuoso "Best of the Best" hotel program. Our clients who stayed there a couple of months ago loved it so much that they went back for another "staycation." We reached out to the property to let them know that they'd won our clients over and ... look at this--an upgrade to a suite!
We were barely off the plane, and on the way into the terminal—our first wildlife encounter! #galapagos