On Board Le Lyrial — The Great Austral Loop — November 16-December 1, 2022
And here we are at the Sofitel on Buenos Aires’ beautiful Posada street, the staging area for our first Antarctic cruise. It seems there are around 140 of us divided into six groups, three French and three English (non-French). So far, we’ve met four French couples, three Australian couples and an American traveling solo. First time on Ponant for all of them. Unlike us, who arrived Tuesday morning after a particularly painful American Airlines flight (replete with unhappy screaming infants), and
The Drake Passage crossing began smoothly enough — certainly no worse than we had experienced at various points on our cruise so far. For me, the biggest impact was the motion was making me sleepy!
Fortunately, I didn’t miss lunch, as my beloved reblochon was offered as a special of the day in a traditional Tartiflette. It was delicious!
We had sunny skies for most of the day and although it was apparent that the seas were becoming more rough, still, nothing we hadn’t see
