Another Antarctic Season

I can't believe it has been 4 years since my last blog from Halley research station on the Brunt Ice Shelf of Antarctica. Time has gone by so quickly and a lot has happened since then work wise.

Briefly I left Halley making my own way home, calling at Novo (The Russian base camp) then flew into Cape Town South Africa, where I stayed for a couple of weeks before taking the blue train on a beautiful journey overnight to Johannesburg. From there I drove to Waterburg and spent a week on Safari before heading to Kuwait to visit my sister.

I wasn't back in the UK for very long before I was heading to Palma to work on a Super Yacht for a season cooking around the Mediterranean. That ended in September and after a few weeks I was back down south for yet another summer on Antarctica. I have been alternating between the Med and the Antarctic seasons since 2011. 

This summer however, I spent working in the UK to gain a qualification to become a nutritionist. This will enable me to advise on nutrition for sports and exercise, nutrition and weight management, childhood nutrition and obesity prevention, post natal nutrition and behavioural change. I have been studying this for 2 years, in between helping to look after the players at Leicester Tigers rugby club and Trent Bridge Cricket club. 

I have recently submitted all my papers along with the results of an 8 week case study that I had to do on nutrition and weight management. I eagerly await the results!

I am currently back at Rothera Research Station on Adelaide Island for my 7th season, only this time I will be here for 18 months as the wintering chef.

So this blog will be to record how the summer season on Antarctica differs from the winter?  How the few left on base cope with the isolation, the constant dark, the lack of fresh ingredients and the falling temperatures.

I'M ''EXCITED'' !!