In the blog about usury, we talked about the Council of Niceae in 325 AD, which unified Christian doctrine and decided which books form...

Over the last few weeks we heard a lot about the role Spain played in shaping of Renaissance Europe. It was a dominant power in the...

Most of us have heard of the Spanish Treasure Fleet, which sailed every year from Havana to Seville with the annual silver production of...

When we sail along the coast of Corsica in July, we will not only see chestnut but plenty of mulberry trees. You may remember that 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...

Ended my last blog with the question why the mariners of ancient Phoenicia and Greece ventured west despite the risk of sailing into the...

Today would be another windy day. Forecast predicted winds from the south of up to 15 knots. We would be sailing like yesterday. Wind...

Seeing that the pentacles of the European Cyclone will reach Durres this afternoon with wind speed of 45 knots, we decided to start our...

Just before we enter the channel to Sibenik, the former Venetian town where the Ca Sagredo family came from, we cross the island of...

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...

One of the many things we will notice on this year's trip along the Dalmatian coast is how small the Venetian harbours were. I wondered...

Last day on the boat today - tomorrow morning the trip is officially over. The Carpe Diem V has to return to Turkey which will take about...

We arrived today at the further most southern point of our trip this year: Herzliya Marina - 15 min north of Tel Aviv. The Carpe Diem is...

After an early night yesterday we got up at 6.30 am this morning and left at 9.00 am for our tour through Cyprus. We decided to skip...

It is going be an easier day today. We aim for the Kelendris or Ayrdrincik in Turkish. Found in 1992 and now excavated since, the famous...

It was time to change the sailing team - but we had agreed to do the handover in Side where the port was too shallow for Carpe Diem V -...

On this page, I wanted to write about another invention which travvelled east to west and which the Arabs - supposedely - brought to the...

With the fall of Egypt, the Mediterranean - for almost one thousand years a unified, cultural space - became a frontier. Commercial ties...

After “Christianity and inflation”, many of you may wonder whether “The plague and the rise of Islam” is another one of Hugo’s...

Over the last few days, we have seen how Christianity slowly spread through the Roman empire. In 313 AD Emperor Constantine the Great...