After yesterday’s heavy reading, something lighter today, What do these three photos below have in common? View of Kotor in Montenegro...

One of the few certainties of our sailing this summer is the fact that we are going to run into big tourist crowds. There are more than...

If you were a Roman Emperor, what style would you use for your palace? Would it emulate Downing Street No 10? The Elysee? The White...

Over the last few days, several of you asked me about the origin of the Croatian people. Where did they come? How did they get to...

Can anyone guess how the following three pictures are related to each other? Mone Lisa from Leonardo da Vinci The town of Herceg Novi The...

Two decades ago, when I met for the first time Albanian people in their national costumes, I believed they must be closely related to...

This morning we left the Carpe Diem V behind in the new yacht port of Iskenderun (former Alexandria ad Issue) to drive in one of the...

We thought yesterday was hot... today the heat topped it with 42 C! So glad we can return every evening to the sea where the sweltering...

First excursion day. The Venetians won't have taken the trouble to visit these sites. By the time they sailed to the Levant, these two...

One day to go! It is so exciting that our sailing starts tomorrow. Once you are on the boat, have a look around and tell me whether you...

One thing we all are going to notice when sailing in Turkish waters is how many French words there are in the Turkish language. Of a...

On our journey along the Anatolian coast, we will not only see many old Byzantine churches. We are going to see many more mosques with...

The Phoenicians on the Levante coast did not only give us glass ware, purple dye, olive oil and cedar trees, their most important...

Was reviewing the Roman recipes i wanted to write about today and suddenly thought why writing about something we could actually prepare...

The word “household slave” seems strange to us today but in the Roman Empire it was a well known term. Half of all slaves (2.5m) worked...

Ever wondered why there are so many black street vendors in Rome selling fake Louis Vitton bags when - according to Italian authorities -...

Now that our bags are backed, we wondered who actually invented them. Why do we have the urge to bring a lot of stuff with us when we are...

Every summer, many Arabs from Saudi Arabia and the Golf Countries descend on London to escape the brutal heat of their home countries....

When having Lebanese mezze with my colleagues in the Marush on Edgware Road one day, I did not occur to me that I would be sitting in...