Found in 1902 near Antikythera, the Mechanism built in the first century BC is now on display in the National Archeological Museum in...

The School of Athens, painted by Raphael 1509 - 1511 depicting nearly all the great Greek Philosophers and Scientists - read Wikipedia to...

Love this site which provides accurate weather and wind predicions Just finished the detailed plan for this summer’s sailing. One of the...

Possible Tsunami Waves which could reach the Coast within 15 - 20 min after a landslide When writing the blog about our visit to the...

The Stromboli Vulcano Island, the Northern Most of the Aeolian Island Group I guess you know by now that I cannot resist climbing a hill...

There are many similar beaches in Calabria with the orderly and rentable deck chairs One of the few things the Genovese Merchants did not...

Irrigation in Egypt in the Faiyum Depression close to Cairo My personal goal today was to write the blog on Calabrian and Apulian food I...

Replica of the Kyrenia Ship - there are three - I do not know which one this is Yesterday’s blog reminded me of my promise a few weeks...

Sybaris Archeology Park - the former harbor is to the right A few days ago, someone asked me what the D-181 stands for in the blog title....

Was trying to find farm yield information for Sicily and Southern Italy all day yesterday but felt I was looking for the famous needle in...

Having seen the Carta Pisana as young student in the Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris in 1981, I planned to write a blog about cartography...

Would we need a weather report for our trip from Genoa to Tunis given that neither the Genovese nor the Pisan merchants had any such...

Yesterday, we wondered about the marbles of the Tower of Pisa and where they were from. Today, we are going to talk about what the tower...

Less than thirty minutes after lifting anchor in La Spezia and putting the boat on a course South, the Apennine Mountains come back into...

Ever wondered why there is no big port between Genoa and Napoli when sailing down the west coast of Italy? There was one in Ostia at the...

Ten days ago, I wrote about the Phoenician traders who ventured into the Western Mediterranean in search of silver and tin. They found it...

Intended to write about the Tunisian cuisine today. But given that I have not been there for 47 years, I only have a faint recollection...

When people talk about North Africa, they mostly think of it as desert, tourist resorts with sandy beaches and decade long and never...

Ever wondered how the Phoenicians and Greeks sailed in the 8th - 6th century BC to the western Mediterranean? We will be crossing these...

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...