Big Wellies

Drove out to Go Outdoors at 6pm to buy Wellingtons for our trip to the Arctic in May.  We are going to the island of Svalbard which is much nearer the North Pole than we have ever been before.  Since we will be going ashore in rubber dinghies and stepping into freezing sea water, we have to have proper wellies.  And since it will be below zero all the time, we need to wear loads of socks so we had to buy boots that were two sizes too big.  In fact, we had to borrow some socks from the shop and put 2 thick socks on the one foot so as to see if they fitted properly.  Here is a map of the route our ship will take:-