POSITION: 36°45’23N 28°15’56″E “Turkish isn’t a particularly difficult language once you’ve mastered the alphabet”, our waiter advised, in lightly accented English. Diving into Google Translate and YouTube later yielded some practical advice on pronunciation. After two weeks our vocabulary now …
Position: 36°49’11″N 28°18’25″E Given all their history, it’s easy to forget that Greece and Turkey are a mere discus throw apart. Zooming in on our chart plotter, the red line separating the two countries comes with a note: “This boundary …
POSITION: 36°26’55″N 28°13’37″E I had a psychic reading once. Just before I drove from London to Ulan Baatar, Mongolia, in a decade-old Suzuki Swift (a Geo Metro to you Yanks). My seer told me I would be successful, but to …
POSITION: 36°32’54″N 26°21’23″E The Cyclades are the first set of islands you bump into once you leave the south end of the Peloponnese heading east. And Milos is the first island with a town large enough that it caters to …
POSITION: 36°26’55″N 28°13’36″E Kicking Marlon off the boat wasn’t a decision Carol took lightly. She had to overcome the objections of not only Marlon, but the captain and the entire staff of our Italian marina. After three years, Marlon had …
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 …
