Legend has it that the French Riviera was discovered in the 18th century by wealthy, noble Englishmen who were on their grand tour...

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

The Can Ribas Vinery with the Tramutana Mountains at the back Wanted to write about Ligurian Food and Wine in this blog but then...

The regular readers of my blogs may have noticed my interest in sea level changes over the ages. In 2019 when we travelled from Corfu to...

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 impressive Entrance to the Canyon at Sa Calobra on Mallorca's rough western Coast For the last two years we were spoiled with views...

The Baleares from Space - from South to North Ibiza, Mallorca and Menorca During our third week this summer, we sail around the Baleares,...

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

Writing the piece about Noli yesterday reminded me of a post on Italian emigration I did three years ago. When Genoa lost its Aegean and...

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...

Until recently, Beziers was a place on the map I only knew from passing by. It was where I had to exit the A7 motorway and turn north to...

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...

In several of my previous blogs I mentioned that Greek settlers brought olives to the Ligurian shore around 600 BC. Time to talk about...

Entrance to Marseille's Greek Harbor - Fort St Jean, built by Louis XIV, protects the port Always wondered why Greek settlers decided to...

Four years ago, when sailing along the Dalmatian coast, we wondered as to why there were no rivers (see my blog C - 18 from 2019). There...

Planning our weeks of sailing is fun. In the first week alone, there are so many cool places to visit, we could double the time from...

When planning the first week of this summer's sailing, I came across the name of San Remo. A name I had not heard for a while. It brought...

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

There are many turnarounds in history but few are as impressive as Genoa's transformation from a Mediterranean trading hub to a global...