Black Sea, Turkey With Berkeley East in Istanbul, there was one more major cruising goal for the season: a trip into the Black Sea. The idea came to us one cold winter evening when the Sochi Olympics were on. For some crazy reason, we thought the fact that we were in Turkey, which borders the […]
Istanbul, Turkey One day we were in a marina, sitting in the cockpit of Berkeley East when some repairmen arrived to work on the boat next to us. As we watched, we became curious as to what they were going to do with the garden hose that they seemed to be attaching to the boom. […]
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, […]
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