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Amafi Coast, Italy We’ve cruised the Amalfi Coast on Berkeley East. It is stunning from the water, but we...

Salerno, Italy Bad weather often leads us to places we would not ordinarily go, and when a storm was brewing near...

Palinuro, Italy It seemed like August of 2017 would never end. The heat, the crowds, there was no relief. Then came...

Cetraro, Italy As we were moving Berkeley East north, we saw smoke in the distance. It looked as though our...

Calabria, Italy All season we had been trying to see more of Italy’s Calabria region. With a wild mountain...

Ustica, Italy We had just tied Berkeley East to a mooring ball off Ustica when we heard a troubling noise. Our...

Palermo, Sicily Every country has a dark horse, a place that is seen as the evil stepchild, more trouble, less...

Cefalu, Sicily After a couple of weeks of island hopping in the Aeolian Islands (with a few thousand of our newest...

Aeolian Islands, Italy We left the Caribbean seven years ago, in part, because we were tired of islands....