Category: Sailing in the Mediterranean
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Anniversary celebrations and a pre-lockdown escape
This week we celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary on board our very comfortable Lagoon 420 catamaran in Finike Marina, Turkey. Such a contrast to our tiny (28 foot) traditional cutter rig timber cruising yacht on which we spent our first wedding anniversary in 1987 in Ballina, New South Wales, Australia! Although there wasn’t room to…
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The inexplicable mystique of Delphi
With the successful survey under our belts on Sunday, the catamaran we planned to buy in Athens, Greece, we decided to take a little break. We headed for the ancient archeological site of Delphi, the Greek religious sanctuary sacred to the God Apollo (the god of light, knowledge and harmony), on Mt. Parnassus near the Gulf of Corinth. …
Salty tales from Bali Hai on Sunday 