Blog posts by Matthew

I am standing on the thick frozen ice of Bothnian Bay in Swedish Lapland near Lulea, in a double layered bright orange neoprene suit, with reggae music being blasted out from a loudspeaker of a giant icebreaker that is usually used by the government to clear a path for boats transporting timber from the nearby boreal forest. If this was not surreal enough the next thing I would be doing is sitting on the edge of the ice waiting to be pushed into the near freezing waters of the Baltic Sea! Glamorous, this was not….. Our voyage to the icy…