This is part of a series called Gulet Cruise Turkey It turns out that the first few days are going to require us to put in some serious miles early in the day – both to allow us to do some activities and to try to beat the very strong winds that come up later…
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This is part of a series called Gulet Cruise Turkey Today marked the next phase of our trip aboard the gulet Ideal1. This boat was arranged for us by another Booz Allen employee whose husband is Turkish and a former gulet captain for 15 years. His name is Dogan (pronounced Doe-Han). In fact, he decided…
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This part of the trip marked the shift from Croatia to Turkey to visit the region of Cappadocia. Although the physical distance isn’t that great, getting there was somewhat of a challenge, requiring flight changes (and long waits) in Zagreb and Istanbul and then an hour van ride from Kayseri, Turkey. Cappadocia is almost dead…
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I thought I would add a small postscript to the end of our time on the Aurum. We left the ship in the late morning under cloudy (what would become very rainy) skies. We were only going to spend the day there, so we didn’t stop back in Dubrovnik, having been there before. Instead, we…
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This is part of a series called Cruising the Dalmatian Islands Today marked the last day of our cruise aboard the Aurum. Since there wasn’t a lot of distance from Mljet to Dubrovnik, we stopped at the small island of Sipan. The real reason we wanted to stop there was to hit the ATM so…
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This is part of a series called Cruising the Dalmatian Islands After the incessant eating, drinking, touring, and shopping that has characterized the trip up to this point, today we anchored at the national park island of Mljet. It is a beautiful, unspoiled island with a lake that dominates the southern portion, ending in a canal…
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This is part of a series called Cruising the Dalmatian Islands Today we stopped in one of the true jewels of the Adriatic – Korcula. It lies just off the Dalmation coast and is the most populated island in the Adriatic that isn’t connected to the mainland by bridge. It is very narrow here, and…
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This is part of a series called Cruising the Dalmatian Islands Today we arrived in Vis, another small island that has only been recently modernized because for several years before Croatia’s independence in 1991, Vis housed a secret Yugoslav base and travel was severely restricted there. Having said that, as in many other islands in…
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This is part of a series called Cruising the Dalmatian Islands Today, we made our way over to the other side of the island of Hvar, to the town of the same name. This “city” (less than 4000 people) has always been a cross roads in the Adriatic – whether for trade or military campaigns. …
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This is part of a series called Cruising the Dalmatian Islands For the past week, we have been cruising the Adriatic Sea aboard a 95 foot gulet (sailing yacht) named Aurum along with five other couples. The boat is owned by a Croatian family (the Gacina’s), where the son (Jere) serves as the captain and…
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