Over the last few days, several of you asked me about the origin of the Croatian people. Where did they come? How did they get to...

For most of you, the name Josip Broz Tito still rings a bell. Indeed, he was the Croatian Partisan Leader the Nazi Germans never managed...

Food is such a wonderful expression of culture. I do not know of any other cultural achievement that touches so many senses. We can smell...

When sailing up the Dalmatian coast we will hear the cacophony of tourist chatter but only one domestic language: Croatian. Architectural...

Sailing from Montenegro to Croatia will get us close to a Greek legacy which is most enjoyable - Wine - provided you do not consume too...

Can anyone guess how the following three pictures are related to each other? Mone Lisa from Leonardo da Vinci The town of Herceg Novi The...

When sailing into the Bay of Kotor, you will be surprised by the landscape you find. All the reference reading tells us that we are...

The older amongst you may remember the civil war in Yugoslavia from 1991 to 2001 which followed the break-up of the republic after the...

On C + 4 the Dragonfly, our sailboat, will reach Ulcinj in Montenegro, the (in)famous pirates' nest. It was a thorn in the flesh of the...

Long before Albania became an independent Kingdom in 1912, there was Albania Veneta, a geographical term, which the Serene Republic used...

Since Venetian times we look at the Adriatic as a north - south axis on which precious goods from Asia and the Middle East are shipped to...

Two decades ago, when I met for the first time Albanian people in their national costumes, I believed they must be closely related to...

Hi Everyone - back again with my daily blog on relevant and not so relevant stories and anecdotes for this year's sailing from Corfu to...

Yesterday was supposedly my last blog but I have my boarding pass already for the afternoon flight to Switzerland. How am I going to...

There is no sailing any longer and we deviated quite a bit yesterday from our original goal to explore Venetian trade routes. But given...

It is Saturday morning - time to say Bye to Carpe Diem V, our home for the last three weeks Our boat is now heading home - by mid next...

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...

Not being able to leave from Famagusta meant we had to round the tail of Cyprus before heading south towards Israel. It would take us 21...

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...