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Welcome to the Exodus Blog – a brand new addition to our website where you can share your amazing travel experiences with the Exodus Community.

Like adventure holidays, travel blogs can come in all shapes and sizes and can be a great source of information and inspiration. Whether you are new to adventure travel or a veteran adrenaline junkie, there’s so much you could be blogging about.

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Polar Bear Special - July 2011 - Northern Spitsbergen

Submitted by paulgoldstein on 22 July 2011 - 5:07pm.

Thursday 21st July, 2011
Northern Spitsbergen

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation... I wish to live deliberately and face only the essential facts of life, and learn what it has to teach and not, when it comes time to die, discover that I had not lived”
Henry David Thoreau

Oh My! I will try to keep some chronology here but it may be ...

Submitted by paulgoldstein on 21 July 2011 - 2:03pm.

Wednesday, 20th July, 2011

I have a barely coherent Ruth next to me in the communications room, it is 35 minutes past midnight and to quote her (as she is still incapable of speaking) ' this was unquestionably the best moment of my life'

She and 100 others have just had five bears on ice, the last one that paraded on a small ice island literally in the midnight sun, it was 5 metres from the hull.

This is gold, this is an exodus charter, they are different a...

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Submitted by paulgoldstein on 20 July 2011 - 4:35pm.

Tuesday, 19th July, 2011
Hinlopen Strait

“Never doubt the ability of a few committed people to change the world, in act it’s the only thing that ever has”. Margaret Mead

Play safe and follow timetables, play safe and visit post offices, play safe and die wondering, gamble and you at least give yourself a chance of touching the elusive grail.

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Submitted by paulgoldstein on 18 July 2011 - 4:08pm.

Monday, 18th July, 2011
Northwest Spitsbergen

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere. The dew is never dry all at once, a shower is forever falling. Vapour is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and glowing, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn as the earth rolls. And for this I am forever grateful to be alive.” John Muir

Flat calm waters, balmy temperatures, cameras locked and ...

Submitted by paulgoldstein on 17 July 2011 - 3:29pm.

Sunday 17th July
Longyearben

A wise man once said ‘it’s not the arriving, it’s the getting there’. He was wrong, but who cares now, the lines are thrown and the bow noses purposefully North. One hundred arcticians are aboard and 99 bags, but I’m over that.

Right about time you read this, the signal will flicker then die on your cell phone. There is no internet, no Twitter and no injunctions, and also no ghastly, insidious, duplicitous Murdoch, be thankful fo...