Log

What about waking up in Paradise? What about a different idea of a Paradise, this one being cold, icy, stuffed with high snowy mountains and dangerous glaciers? Well, that’s what happened today. Europa had made her...

Today we had a more laid out start of the morning, well deserved after the last couple of nights parties. But it didn’t take much longer than 09:00h to start our engines, heave anchor and begin our beautiful and...

Early in the morning Europa heaves anchor from Whalers Bay and we make our way out of Port Foster though the only entrance to Deception Island, the spectacular Neptune’s Bellows. Once leaving Deception Island behind we...

As forecasted, 35 to 40kn of Easterly winds blow after leaving or anchorage at Barrientos Island. Heading eastwards among the English Strait, we brave our way under both our engines against high swells as the ship pitches and...

With the drop on the surface water temperature that started last evening, from approximately 5ºC to about 2ºC in just a few hours, it also comes a drop on the air temperature and a worsening of the weather. Cold and...

Zeven dagen op zee. De bark EUROPA vetrok vrijdag 14 april vanuit Kaapstad voor de oceaanoversteek naar Boston. Bij vetrek stond er een stevige wind waardoor het de eerste dagen voor Lotte en Matthijs flink aanpoten was en...