How do you want to spend your birthday? “Snorkling a new area” Where? “Bernd told me about a place called Wakatobi” It’s on the other side of the world. “So!” While we are at it
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Italy Road Trip Sep 2025
Having cut the summer cruise short by a month, we decided to take a road trip and see more of Italy, particularly in the North. From Vibo we headed up the coast to Naples. While
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Returning from our aborted mid summer sojourn to Madeira and the Azores, we arranged for the boat to be launched at R Marine in Reggio. We immediately headed north to San Giovanni where we met
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TE Ionian Sea and Sicily 2025 After a few days in Barcelona, we arrived in Corfu at the Gouvia Marina on May 9 and were greeted by our great winter crew, Ilias, Dimitries and David.
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Heel of Italy 2024 click on the map to see the interactive version Having put True East to bed for the winter in Corfu, we decided to explore some of the heel of the Italian
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Tanzania Safari 2024 click on the map for an interactive view Click on Google icon to see map on computer. Click on map with phone or tablet, use slider in upper right of map to
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Zanzibar, Tanzania 2024 click on the map for interactive view Zanzibar is an island off the east coast of Africa, about half way down the coast. It has been occupied by the Portugal, Oman, Germany
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Italy & Slovenia Road Trip 2024 click on the map to see interactive view We watched the boat hauled and inspected the bottom and running gear. It was the right decision to have the bottom
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Greek Road Trip May 2024…and a little Albania Click on the map for an interactive view Leaving Barcelona we flew to Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece located at the north side of the
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Istanbul is where east meets west across the Bosphorus Straight. Before coming we watched the Netflix series “Rise of the Empire”set in 1453, highly recommended. Also recommended is the book “Ataturk” by Andrew Mango, Ataturk,
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