Istanbul, Turkey When most people think of cruising, they imagine floating at anchor off a beautiful deserted atoll. We love that life, but we also enjoy the challenges of taking Berkeley East into big exciting cities. To get to Istanbul, we fought current, freighters and flies, sometimes individually but often all at once. It was […]
06 July 2014 | Canakkale, Turkey While sailing along the Atki peninsula, it selected Todd Rundgren’s “We Gotta Get You a Woman”. This peninsula is a very unique place, where women are not allowed. It is full of large monasteries with lonely monks. We’re convinced that the NSA and Apple have conspired to hijack the […]
Istanbul, Turkey & Lake Norman, North Carolina No blog updates until late August. Berkeley East is in Istanbul, while we are vacationing at home in North Carolina.
Sea of Marmara, Turkey We have never really given much thought to flies. We use a rolled-up magazine, or the two-hand clap method, to take care of any fly that annoys us too much. So when some fellow cruisers (upon hearing that we were headed to Turkey) told us to take a lot of fly […]
Limnos, Greece In Italy it was churches, we looked at every church we saw, sometimes dragging ourselves inside thinking we’d probably see nothing new, yet we always did. In Greece, it is the same with forts and castles; there is one in every town, on every peninsula, in every cove. And since they are always […]
24 June 2014 | Chalkidiki, Greece A calm marina with a beautiful beach, a great fish restaurant and a little train that takes you up the hill to the winery, it was like Porto Carras was made for us. Part of a huge resort, the marina is yet another victim of the Greece financial crisis, […]
Mt. Olympus, Greece As cool as it can be to travel around the Mediterranean by boat, many of our must-see places are not accessible from the sea. So from time to time, multi-day land trips are in order. The main goals of our recent land trip through Northern Greece were to see Mt. Olympus, and […]
11 June 2014 | Nothern Sporades Greece In June, we continued sailing through the Greek islands, working North West in the Aegean Sea and into the Northern Sporades island group. These islands stretch from the East coast of mainland Greece to the bottom of the Khalkidhiki Peninsula in North East Greece. These are not the […]
Volos, Greece Looking at our view from the dock in Volos, you would never know what incredible beauty was just a short distance away. We hired Nicholas, of Taxi in Volos (teacher turned driver/unofficial tour guide), to take us to see the Meteora Monasteries, about two hours away. The name Meteora means to “hang in […]
Niece in Greece 01 June 2014 | Northern Sporades Greece Our niece, Alyssa, took some time between her study abroad classes in Crete and Ireland this summer to visit us in the Northern Sporades of Greece. It was great to have her sail with us again. She has grown up quite a bit from the […]
