Our Boat, the MYRA, this morning at Sunrise at 06.59 am (in Rhodes it was 06.25 am) This morning, after breakfast, it was time to say...

Turkish Sailors surrender to the Greek Privateer Katsionis - Painting from his Crimean Villa Greek folklore is full of tales of heroic...

Fresco of a young, dancing Minoan Noble Woman from Knossos Seven miles north of Heraklion lies the island of Dia. Four of its bays...

Arrived in Rhodes - one day from boarding the MYRA! The Ports in Rhodes are still the same as in ancient Times - Open Port (left), Big...

Tar has a high Viscosity and flows slowly but is still liquid at Room Termperature There are many unsung innovations in history. One of...

Felucas on the Nile, sailing upriver with the prevailing Desert Wind A few months ago I wrote a blog about ropes. Always wanted to follow...

Francesco de Pinedo and Ernesto Campanellin in the Savoia in 1925 Exactly 100 years ago, Francesco de Pinedo, a pioneering Italian...

The 2004 completed Rion Antirion Bridge in Patras links A5 and A8 and cost EUR 670 Million At the end of this summer’s sailing, we will...

Aerial View of Rhodes - at the Back the Ancient Acropollis with Stadion & Temple of Apollo Never underestimate the power of a Map. In...

Ala Littoria's Flight Schedule 1939 - you can see Rhodes A good 2 months to go until we set foot on the Myra, our sail boat from 19 of...

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....

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

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...

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 –...

The Lindos Acropolis dates back to the Dorian Settlement around 900 BC For thousands of years, the Minoans lived on the island of Crete....

Italian Poster promoting Tourism in Rhodes in 1935 When writing my previous blog, I found the above poster on the internet. First, I...

One of the first things you notice when arriving in Crete is the sheer number of olive trees. Greece produces about 250’000 tons of olive...

Aggelakis Winery 10 km south of Heraklion in Crete The Minoan civilization, Europe’s first, fascinates me since I visited Crete in 1979....

When Apostle Paul, a Roman citizen from Taurus (Adana today), sailed along the coast of Crete, he – like all other 275 passengers  – had...