A Royal Navy Ship of the Line in Story Weather (Artist Impression from 17th Century) We write the year 1707. A British Fleet of 21 ships...

Was plotting the course for our second week of sailing and looking for quiet bays to stay overnight. Would be a lovely to anchor for one...

Toulon Naval Base, two years after the Scuttling of the French Fleet on 27 Nov 1942 In November 1942, London was shrouded in the worst...

Fréjus on the French Riviera looks like a typical Provencal town. A quaint medieval center, the mandatory yacht harbor and long, yellow...

The Piazza dei Cavalli in Piacenza where the Claims Clearirng took place four Times a Year Early January I wrote a blog “Bankers are good...

Most careers are made when someone steps into a difficult situation and resolves it. In our second week of sailing, we will visit Toulon,...

When strolling through Nice, you get the distinctive feeling that the architecture is Italian not French. The old town and the...

Fort Mont-Alban built in 1557 between Nice and Villefranche-sur-Mer to prevent a repetition of the devastating Siege of Nice in 1543 by...

The Via Julia Augusta between Albenga and Alessio - a Funerary Memorial to the left Sometimes one post leads to the next. Yesterday I...

Noli during Summertime - the Beach is covered in a Sea of white Umbrellas 60 kilometers west of Genoa, there is Noli, a quaint Ligurian...

Plage de Pampelone, the long Sand Beach just south of Saint-Tropez August is the time of the year when people flock to the beaches on the...

Our third week of sailing will start in Port Mahon on the eastern tip of Menorca, the most northern island of the Baleares. Mahon (or Maò...

There are two reasons behind the meteoric rise of Genoa as first global financial centre. We talked about the first in the last blog:...

Last night, we anchored in a bay at the northern tip of Spetses. The island is nowadays know as a place for the rich and famous. Indeed,...

The Sybil of Erythraia - painted by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel It is rare hat we visit places where world history changed...

Another early day - coffee at 7 am - we would lift anchor a few minutes later to sail to the ANZAC Cove where Serhan, our guide and...

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...