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Ol n' Ben around the world
Wake up around 11 am. We have breakfast together and have a second shower in less than 24 hours !! :-) O. and I decide to go shopping rapidly in the sport shop where we find nice fleece jackets.
Then everybody goes to the basecamp. We have to clean our outfit : safety jackets, dry suits... We do this quickly and efficiently. Then we go to the museum of Svalbard. We find there an interesting guide of the Isfjord bay, and the map we were looking for, the map B2 of the bay Benoit used to plan our trip. The visit of the museum is quite interesting too.
We then drive to the Global Seed Vault of Svalbard, located close to the airport.
In the permafrost, 1300 kilometers beyond the Arctic Circle, is the world's largest secure seed storage, opened by the Norwegian Government in February 2008. From all across the globe, crates of seeds are sent here for safe and secure long-term storage in cold and dry rock vaults.
The site is closed to public, but it is quite impressive to be so close to this strategic reserve.
We come back downtown, send postcards, do some shopping again, and have a quick lunch at the apartment. Then some of us decide to go to the swimming pool: we spend more than an hour there, enjoying the pool and the sauna. So good to feel clean after two weeks of expedition !
We walk back to the apartment, start to look at the pictures taken during the trip, and then go and have dinner in a restaurant nearby. The end of the evening takes place at the Karlsbergen bar, until 2 am.
We come back to the apartments, pick up our bags and head to the airport around 3 am. In the meantime, it starts to rain and Benoit decides to make a quick stop at the basecamp in order to store the outfits which were hang outside to dry.
We finally arrive at the airport around 3:30. No other passengers but us ! 3 ladies are there for (a very fast) check in.
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Emotional goodbye
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Then everybody goes to the basecamp. We have to clean our outfit : safety jackets, dry suits... We do this quickly and efficiently. Then we go to the museum of Svalbard. We find there an interesting guide of the Isfjord bay, and the map we were looking for, the map B2 of the bay Benoit used to plan our trip. The visit of the museum is quite interesting too.
We then drive to the Global Seed Vault of Svalbard, located close to the airport.
In the permafrost, 1300 kilometers beyond the Arctic Circle, is the world's largest secure seed storage, opened by the Norwegian Government in February 2008. From all across the globe, crates of seeds are sent here for safe and secure long-term storage in cold and dry rock vaults.
The site is closed to public, but it is quite impressive to be so close to this strategic reserve.
We come back downtown, send postcards, do some shopping again, and have a quick lunch at the apartment. Then some of us decide to go to the swimming pool: we spend more than an hour there, enjoying the pool and the sauna. So good to feel clean after two weeks of expedition !
We walk back to the apartment, start to look at the pictures taken during the trip, and then go and have dinner in a restaurant nearby. The end of the evening takes place at the Karlsbergen bar, until 2 am.
We come back to the apartments, pick up our bags and head to the airport around 3 am. In the meantime, it starts to rain and Benoit decides to make a quick stop at the basecamp in order to store the outfits which were hang outside to dry.
We finally arrive at the airport around 3:30. No other passengers but us ! 3 ladies are there for (a very fast) check in.
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Emotional goodbye
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