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...

After a few sunny but humid days in Istanbul, a thunderstorm woke us up this morning. Black clouds had gathered over the Bosporus, there...

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...

Largely unnoticed and overshadowed by the war in the Ukraine, an unhealthy arms race is gaining pace between Turkey and Greece, both...

One of 50 Russian Warships which sailed in 1921 through the Bosporus to the Mediterranean Standing on the Four Seasons’ terrace that...

From the Ferry Terminals at the Golden Horn, all day long, thousands of commuters and tourists arrive or depart for a trip over the...

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...

Sunday’s piece about Russia’s presidential flag made me wonder about the Greek and Turkish Flag. The horizontal stripes of the Greek flag...

As we see these days, it is easy to start a war and make ambitious plans. Maps are patient when generals draw their big blue arrows....

Sailling along the Greek – Turkish border is an experience of an extra kind. You can feel the hostility between the two countries - even...

If the northerly Meltemi is too strong in our third week of sailing, we continue further south to the Greek island of Leros before...

Galata Tower - View from the East - Tokapi Palace, Hagia Sophia & Blue Mosque in the back The Galata Tower is one of Istanbul’s most...

The decaying Barracks on the former Prison Island of Gyaros Cruising in the turquoise waters of the Aegean does not prepare for the...

Muslim Refugees in 1922 - the Steamboat at the back is from the Turkish Red Crescent When sailing along the Turkish-Greek border in the...

Trying to find remnants of old Byzantium in modern Istanbul is quite a task. Of course the Theodosian Walls which once protected...

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...

The Balkan War 1912 - 1913 was a Precursor to the First World War 1914 - 1918 When we sail in the Aegean, we have to carefully respect...

Love asking questions for which you can’t easily find an answers in traditional history books. One of them is why the Seljuk and Ottoman...

Feeding the important Genovese Harbour of Chios required many Windmills Driving along the Turkish coast from Bodrum to Troy left me with...