ADVENTURE CRUISING
A DINING DELIGHT
The ship serves a buffet for both breakfast and lunch. Breakfast is open sitting and consists of a vast selection of traditional Scandinavian cheeses, sliced hams, cereals and yoghurts, with cooked dishes such as mushroom and bacon served on a fried egg. Lunch again is an open sitting with a buffet table of a variety of hot and cold dishes. Dinner may be a buffet, set meal or barbecue as announced in the daily programme. The dining room is large and spacious with double full-length windows along three sides
that not only allow the light to flow in but also provide exemplary views of the snow-capped mountains and wildlife as you sail along. There is no formal dress code as such and
there is free choice seating. Some nights are designated as “theme cuisine” be it Argentinean, Filipino or Mexican. The food is good but not what you would expect from some of the mainstream cruise lines. Frankly, this is no surprise when you consider where you are on the planet. Johan- Widvic Johansen has been chef on the Fram for seven years.
He says: “Because of the location, we have to plan our menus six months in advance and, when we’re down here, we take great strides to keep fruit and veg fresh and ready for serving. Beef we get from Argentina but the fish we bring from Norway as South American fish is not of the quality we would like to serve to our guests.”
There were also a series of “reality show” entertainments, from the crew’s talent night and the expedition staff
modelling clothes on sale in the shop, to a Q&A session with the Captain and other officers in the magnificent observation lounge.
T
he lectures were planned so the next day you actually visited the places discussed and saw the wildlife and places where the early explorers and scientists lived and worked. One of these was the British base at Port Lock-
roy, which is now run by The Antarctic Heritage Trust as a museum. It also has an excellent souvenir shop and post office. All the profits go to preserving historical huts in Antarctica Antarctica itself is full of surprises, from the mixed weather to the amazing array of activities on offer. One day, we found ourselves tobogganing down a steep slope at a Chilean research base; then, at Deception Island, the hardier souls were offered the chance to go swimming in the Antarctic Ocean. The island is actually the crater of an active volcano that the sea has broken into, so the warmer water inside
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