Summer Salad with Oranges, Goat Cheese & Olives My fever over the last three days disrupted my blogging. Being sick is always boring....

The Navarino Castle between the Ionian Sea and the Bay of Navarino was built from 1287 - 1289 by Nicholas II Saint-Omer. Relatively...

Cypresses line the Road to my House in the South of France A row of Cypress trees lines the road to my property in the South of France....

Can't believe - only 101 days to go until we set foot on the Myra, our sail boat this summer! Much of the Pharos (Lighthouse) of...

Mainstreet of the Dorian City of Camirus, 40 km SW of Rhodes, with the Fountain Square Was trying for months to find out more about the...

The Greek Navy Ship Olympias somewhere in the Aegean A few weeks ago I wrote about Persian Emperor (King of Kings) Xerxes ' efforts in...

The Parthenon survived dozens of Earthquakes over the 2'500 Years since its Construction It is only a year ago that I wrote a blog about...

The lush Mountains in the Peloponnese with their fertile Valleys receive a lot of Rain Mosf of my High School class mates hated history....

Porto Lago (today Lakki), the Italian Naval Base, was built entirely in Art Deco Style Arriving by ferry in Kos, Kalimnos, Leros, Nisiros...

Remains of the Saint Titus Church in Gortyna, the provincial Capital in Roman Times One of the disadvantages of being a protestant is...

Aerial View of La Valetta in Malta, the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Base from 1814 - 1937 The seas around Crete where we sail this summer...

300 Spartans held in 480 BC 120'000 Persians back for a full 3 Days - no Spartan survived This summer, after 2 ½ weeks of sailing, we...

Minoan Young Men playing with a Bull - would not call it Bull Fight So much is written about the Minotaur that covering it in my blog...

The Olympias, a Replica of a Greek Trireme, was built in 1987 using original Design Plans Few things amaze me more than the large numbers...

Italian L3/35 tanks landing on 28th of May 1941 on the Shores of Sitia in eastern Crete On my first trip to Crete, we, 2 history students...

The Kùcùk Hasan Mosque in the old Harbor of Chania is now used as a Museum 2023 was a centennial that many people did not want to...

A typical small, family owned Hotel Resort east of Heraklion probably built in the 1980s Don’t have GDP numbers for the time when Crete...

Carthage with its round Harbor around 300 BC One of my passions in life is reading maps. I find them so informative. They often convey...

Leros Castle was built by the Knights of Saint John on the Site of a Dorian Temple for Diana Sailing through the Dodecanese islands is...

The Odeon in Gortyn, Rome's Provincial Capital for Crete and Cyrenaica in North Africa A good 4 months to go before sailing this summer –...