After yesterday's delicious Turkish Mussa'qqa for dinner, a group decision was made to walk up to Assos this morning. We had to get rid...

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...

When I tell people about Istanbul’s tunnels, they usually expect a story about the Marmaray Project, the 13.6 km long rail link between...

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...

Many of the participants in this year’s sailing learned ancient Greek when doing the humanities at High School. Always wondered whether...

Always wondered why Zeus and his family lived on Mount Olympus in Thessaly in northern Greece. The world’s religions know many sacred...

The Turkish Straits - Bosporus 17 nm, Sea of Marmaris 110 nm, Dardanelles 37 nm My last piece about the Luwians and Troy’s big harbor...

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...

Sardis, the Capital of Ancient Lydia, where Coins were invented - Here the Temple of Artemis During our first two weeks of sailing this...

Plate tectonics had an amazing impact on shaping the ancient Aegean civilization. The rough mountains forced the early Greeks to take to...

A good two months ago, I wrote about the legacies of the first Christian Empire, Byzantium. During my research, I found many more topics...

Before writing my blog yesterday, I never asked myself where the marble for Greece's magnificent temples and palaces came from. But...

One of the most beautiful things when sailing at night is the night sky. There is no light pollution when you are in the middle of the...

This summer we are going to see many abandoned and destroyed ancient cities. Our sailing route through the Aegean is full of them. As we...

Wanted to write about Turkish Honey today. But now that Russia attacks Ukraine and kills innocent people, I will write about a time 2’000...

Visiting the ceramics departments in a Greek museums is fun. My sentence has a double meaning though. The exhibits make you marvel how...

Love watching Greek and Turkish people arguing about the origin of “their” yoghurt. They are passionate and argue like football fans....

YouTube is full of clips about Rome’s eleven aqueducts. Of course, the > 800 kilometers long water supply network that took centuries to...

Always wondered why people in antiquity mixed wine with water. Wine was not consumed undiluted as we drink it today. It was served during...