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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This is part of a series called Cruising the Dalmatian Islands There are hundreds of small islands between Split and Dubrovnik and we are going to stop in as many as we can. After an evening in a remote anchorage, we stopped off in Milna to get fuel. Just a short stop, but a very…
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This is part of a series called Seabourn Half-World cruise Well, it had to come to an end and we were really started feeling it 2-3 days before the end of the cruise. I know that sounds weird, especially when you take a weeklong cruise, but this was a 55-day cruise – and our first…
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This is part of a series called Seabourn Half-World cruise Ah, Croatia – another beautiful country with a painful history. Sitting at the crossroads of Central Europe, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean, it has always been at the center of trade routes, shifting empires, and ethnic/religious rivalries. Like so many other countries, the fortunes of…
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This is part of a series called Seabourn Half-World cruise One of our last stops on the cruise was the Greek island of Corfu, the second largest island in the Ionian Sea. Corfu really marks the northwestern corner of Greece and, if you look at a map, you will see most of the island is…
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This is part of a series called Seabourn Half-World cruise Leaving Israel, we were off for southern Turkey, making two port calls in Bodrum and Kusadasi, along the southwestern coast of Turkey in the Aegean Sea. I have to tell you that Turkey turned out to be one of our favorite places on the trip…
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This is part of a series called Seabourn Half-World cruise After leaving Egypt, we were ready for a change – something a bit more modern, clean, and hopeful. Israel clearly fit that bill. We visited two ports in Israel (Ashdod for Jerusalem and Haifa). I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when we arrived in…
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This is part of a series called Seabourn Half-World cruise I write this as we are cruising up the Suez Canal – our first “sea day” in the past five days. Busy, busy, busy! We made three stops in Egypt (Sohkna, Sharm al Sheik, and Safaga), but these were only convenient ports to depart on…
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