But we were on a serious shopping expedition, having promised our children something from the Caribbean.
"The first serious Russian expedition in this area was launched in the 16th Century.
Ansky had conducted serious ethnographic expeditions, and his play combines Hasidic folk traditions with vivid character portrayals, bringing together folkloristic motifs in particular, possession by a disembodied spirit and psychological depth.
The effort to summit the mountain was one of the earliest deliberate attempts to climb a major mountain peak, and involved logistics, planning and use of rudimentary climbing equipment, "making it one of the more serious mountaineering expeditions undertaken to that point in history".
Stac Pollaidh, Highlands 'High peaks abound in the Highlands and reaching their summits often involves serious all-day expeditions,' warns David.
Frank does, however, lead serious bird-watching expeditions all over southern Portugal to see species like the black-bellied sandgrouse and azure-winged magpie (he was in Lisbon on business during our visit).
When his expedition encountered serious trouble, he had to reinvent the team's goals.
In fact, the expedition was a serious affair, including an expert ornithologist, a specialist in animal capture and a senior member of the Indian Zoological Survey, and was intended to survey a range of birds and animals across east Nepal.
Stoker Leishman's Diaries was an excursion into serious, not to say tragic, drama, curiously undervalued at the time; Leishman was a member of Scott's last, ill-fated expedition to the South Pole.
