Inspiration 1

Chris and I have enjoyed many different responses when we first talked about our trip to Antarctica but they really fall into two camps, both have similar amount of astonishment. My favourite one is along the lines of...

"Wow, Antarctica eh, won't that be cold...?"

followed by

"Are you having to go with your job or something... what's forcing you to do it?"

Another fairly usual response is "better watch out for the Polar Bears... they can be really nasty".

I guess we must blame children's cartoons for popularising the belief that Penguins and Polar Bears live together in icy places. Well, in case you we wondering... they don't. Polar bears are only in the North i.e. Arctic and Penguins only in the south i.e. Antarctic (although you also get them in South America, South Africa and New Zealand...) and of course more famously Edinburgh zoo.