POSITION: 37°38’51″N 21°19’19″E People are leaving Greece faster than greased lightning. Summer tourism is the heartbeat of the islands and summer ends in October. On the 15th to be precise. By then the hotels have shuttered, the diving centers decompressed, …
POSITION: 18°04’28″N 63°05’46″W Hurricane Irma tore through the northern Caribbean in September 2017. Saint Martin, the split French/Dutch island, was hit particularly hard. We stopped there twice. Once on our way down the Leewards and again before we crossed the …
POSITION: 38°22’02″N 20°43’02″E Dateline – Ithaca. Not that Ithaca. Ithaka the OG island in the Ionian Sea. Birthplace of Odysseus. Home to caves of swineherds and nymphs. That one. Surrounding an epic natural harbour, the principle town is Vathy. A …
POSITION: 38°55’22″N 20°53’53″E We are indentured to the weather. Bound by the terms and conditions set forth by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, we stayed in Corfu town only long enough to clear into Greece. Forty-five knot winds …
We begin an occasional series on famous sea captains with a character familiar to our British fans, but one who remains mostly unknown outside the Commonwealth. The rotund figure of pirate Captain Horatio Pugwash is seared into the memory of …
Position: 39°04’48″N 17°08’12″E Navigating the Straits of Messina is downright mythological. At its northern entrance lie the twin monsters of Charybdis and Scilla, whirlpools that in ancient times drew sailors to the briny deeps, never to return. These days the …
Position: 39°52’18″N 20°00’13″E Until September, we had it in mind to head for Tunisia for a few days and on to Greece and Turkey from there. But based on rave reviews from our friends Robin and Bob, we reconsidered that …
Position: 38°25’11″N 14°57’15″E The grand entrance of a 35-foot red-hulled German sailboat into Porto di Ponente’s snug harbour immediately made Carol reach for her iPhone. Manned by three strapping young men, two on the foredeck and one at the helm, …
Position: 40°37’54″N 14°35’51″E I’ve never been certain if Amalfi means just one Malfi, one of many Malfis, or indeed an absence of Malfis. The Jacobean play, The Duchess of Malfi, indicates that the original name has since morphed into a …
