So, on we have gone to Prague, recognized as the “first beautiful city,” mostly thanks to Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor during the mid-14th Century. During his reign, Prague grew into one of Europe’s largest and most prosperous cities. While it reminded us a bit of Kraków, it is easily 2-3 times its size….
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We started our 2015 European adventure off visiting Kraków, Poland. Of course, part of the adventure was actually getting there. It took us about 36 hours – flights from Boston to Zurich, Zurich to Munich, Munich to Prague, and then the overnight train to Kraków. This was mad worse by the fact that Swiss Air…
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This is part of a series called Gulet Cruise Turkey Well, all good things must come to an end and we were rapidly winding down. While having been on two “sailboats” in the past few weeks, we had never actually “sailed.” Ken requested that we hoist the sails and give it a whirl on our…
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This is part of a series called Gulet Cruise Turkey After a restful night in Selimiye, we headed back out into the wind and high seas to head to Datca, the largest town on the Datca peninsula. Not much to talk about there; it is largely a town devoted to fishing and marinas (and the…
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This is part of a series called Gulet Cruise Turkey As promised, the sun shone brightly and the winds were howling. Luckily we had a late start, so everyone could sleep in. After a 1.5 hour sail, we pulled into the lee of Kameriye Island, a beautiful, goat-laden place. The highlight of this island is…
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This is part of a series called Gulet Cruise Turkey We left very early again today, heading for a morning stop at Loryma and then onto an unscheduled stop in Bozburun (our inverter blew up last night, so the Captain has to go and get another one). There isn’t much going on in Loryma. The…
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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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