Every time I travel to Knidos, I feel giddy with anticipation. This is where the mighty Mediterranean meets her capricious daughter, the Agean. View from the theatre The approach itself - be it from Bodrum in the North or Datça in the East - is more often than not long and windy but when you [...]
Antigua was my last trip of 2019. We were returning from a two-week sailing holiday from British Virgins and were not ready to face the winter just yet, so decided to stay under the Caribbean sun for a few more days. Antigua has (well, had) direct connections to UK and Europe so it’s a very convenient [...]
Waking up in Italy is a great way to start any day. Waking up on a sailboat criss crossing the Aeolians is the best, even if the boat in question is the Josephine, the noisiest boat of the modern seafaring era. Off the coast of Sicily, the Aeolian islands offer seas as clear as the [...]
Sailing on board the Star Flyer from Barbados to Panama
Croatia has islands. Approximately 1400 of them. It also has a beautiful coastline, lush green hills and small towns with stone houses and red tiled roofs. Plus the crystal clear waters of the Adriatic Sea. And, as if those were not enough, it has Dubrovnik, with its extremely well preserved fortified old town. So we, [...]
It was last November and as the weather turned cold and grey in Europe we took off for a long holiday in the Caribbean. The plan was to meet with two of our friends for a 10-days sailing trip in Grenada, spend a few days in St Lucia to relax, then say good-bye to them [...]
It is the holiday season once again and this time our destination is the Dodecanese of Greece. Divided by the beautiful Aegean Sea, the people of Turkey and Greece share a great heritage which is evident in our respective cuisine, taste and sentiments, regardless of the politics of the day. So it’s no surprise that [...]
1.Gün / 14 Temmuz Ekip 13 Temmuz akşam üzeri toplandı. Biz Erbil'le Brüksel'in yağmur ve kapkara gökyüzünden kurtulup Göceğe geldiğimizde, Ayşegül'ü teknede gadget'ları ile oynarken, Ahmet'i ise İstanbul - Midilli - Balıkesir - Göcek etabını tamamlamış, pantonlarda emekli albay modunda tekneleri teftiş ederken bulduk. Amacımız Ayşegül'ün yeni teknesi All that Jazz'i ay sonundaki bir sefere [...]
We chose St.Vincent & Grenadines, a part of the windward islands as our latest Caribbean sailing destination. As the name suggests, the island nation consists of one big island - St Vincent -and a number of islands of different sizes and characters, the Grenadines. They are a sailor's dream with their clear turquoise waters, white [...]
