This is part of a series called Viking Grand European Tour After a lovely stay in Prague, it was time to head down to Budapest to pick up our river cruise. This was a horrendously long (7-8 hour) trip by bus, broken only by a rest stop at a way overcrowded roadside restaurant. We pulled…
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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 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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