One of life’s pleasure is looking at menus and recipe books and guessing how people discovered all the interesting foods they describe....

Over the last three days we talked about the reasons why the Phoenicians ventured into the Western Mediterranean, how they used stars and...

When we leave Genoa on 11 July, we will sail along the Ligurian coast with its steep hills. Already on the second day they merge with the...

When writing my blog yesterday, I was thinking of the three fig trees in Chantrou. Every year, we impatiently wait for the figs to get...

When I googled yesterday how much energy a galley rower consumes a day, I was puzzled. 6’000 calories! That is more than twice my daily...