Turkish coffee or Greek coffee? If you order Turkish Coffee in Greece, the waiters tend to ignore you or look at you with big eyes. How...

Was busy the last three weeks writing the Travel Plan for sailing this summer. You find a Pdf copy under “Travel Plan 2022”. With the...

Sailing from Istanbul to Athens next summer, where Genovese galleys once roamed, will take us to many tiny ports where fishermen still go...

On the island of Chios, you do not need to dig for gold. It grows on trees and is called Mastic. Had it for the first-time last year when...

Feeding the important Genovese Harbour of Chios required many Windmills Driving along the Turkish coast from Bodrum to Troy left me with...

We write the year 1241/42. The Mongol Army had just wiped out the Polish and Hungarian Knights and took winter quarters in the low lands...

On a single trip one often learns more than reading many books. This wisdom came to my mind when travelling from Bodrum to Istanbul a few...

Ever wondered why ancient ports such as Marseille, Naples and Constantinople survived and others like Miletus, Knidos, Kaunas, Ephesus...

Welcome back to the next episode of our travel blog. Next year, we shall continue following Genovese Sailing routes which bound the...