Fort Mont-Alban built in 1557 between Nice and Villefranche-sur-Mer to prevent a repetition of the devastating Siege of Nice in 1543 by...

The Via Julia Augusta between Albenga and Alessio - a Funerary Memorial to the left Sometimes one post leads to the next. Yesterday I...

Noli during Summertime - the Beach is covered in a Sea of white Umbrellas 60 kilometers west of Genoa, there is Noli, a quaint Ligurian...

Plage de Pampelone, the long Sand Beach just south of Saint-Tropez August is the time of the year when people flock to the beaches on the...

Our third week of sailing will start in Port Mahon on the eastern tip of Menorca, the most northern island of the Baleares. Mahon (or Maò...

There are two reasons behind the meteoric rise of Genoa as first global financial centre. We talked about the first in the last blog:...

Last night, we anchored in a bay at the northern tip of Spetses. The island is nowadays know as a place for the rich and famous. Indeed,...

The Sybil of Erythraia - painted by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel It is rare hat we visit places where world history changed...

Another early day - coffee at 7 am - we would lift anchor a few minutes later to sail to the ANZAC Cove where Serhan, our guide and...

At 4 am, the rattling of our anchor chain woke me up for a brief moment. The captain was lifting anchor. It was time to sail to Cardak on...

After a few sunny but humid days in Istanbul, a thunderstorm woke us up this morning. Black clouds had gathered over the Bosporus, there...

On a hot summer day this July, I was in the comfortable, cool Hotel Particulier of the “Monnaie de Paris”, the French Mint, We were...

Largely unnoticed and overshadowed by the war in the Ukraine, an unhealthy arms race is gaining pace between Turkey and Greece, both...

One of 50 Russian Warships which sailed in 1921 through the Bosporus to the Mediterranean Standing on the Four Seasons’ terrace that...

From the Ferry Terminals at the Golden Horn, all day long, thousands of commuters and tourists arrive or depart for a trip over the...

Reconstruction of Troy - The Citadel surrounded by a Palace Garden - the Town with its mighty Walls and the Water Ways in the Valley (all...

Thanks to the movie “300” many people are familiar with the heroic stand of 300 Spartans at the Thermopylae against the invading Persian...

Sunday’s piece about Russia’s presidential flag made me wonder about the Greek and Turkish Flag. The horizontal stripes of the Greek flag...

As we see these days, it is easy to start a war and make ambitious plans. Maps are patient when generals draw their big blue arrows....

Sailling along the Greek – Turkish border is an experience of an extra kind. You can feel the hostility between the two countries - even...