Arrived Willemstad the capital of Curacao around 2:30pm. This is an island country within the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean about 50 miles off the coast of Venezuela. A small relatively flat island with a population of around 180,000. A dry climate with little rain which is reflected in the terrain, with low brush and…
Arrived Georgetown the capital of Grenada at 7am. It is made up of 3 islands, Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique with a population around 115,000. They are part of the Windward Islands group. Grenada is known as the “Island of Spices” due to it´s growing and export of nutmeg & mace. It gained independence from…
Arrived Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados around 7am. The eastern most island in the Caribbean on the Atlantic ocean. It was under British rule until gaining independence on Nov 30th 1966. This is a predominately limestone island with lush rolling hills. 282,000 inhabitants makes it one of the most densely populated countries in the world….
Arrived at Castries on St Lucia around 10am. This is the capital of the Eastern Caribbean nation which alternated between French and British rule throughout the 1700s before finally settling as British. It achieved independence in Feb 1979. It is a tropical volcanic island with lush greenery and mountains. The weather was mostly sunny with…
Arrived off Gustavia at 7am. This is the capital of the small island of St Barthelemy in the French West Indies, also know as St Barth or St Barts. A small town of about 2,300 people first established in 1785. It’s now a Caribbean boating haven as evidenced by the number of boats docked and…
Arrived at Dockyard Bermuda in very windy conditions at 4pm on the 4th. Met for our tour of the Islands at 8:30am on Wednesday 5th. Eighteen of us boarded a small minibus with our guide Jevon who was very informative about life on the Island. We headed out from Dockyard along the narrow, winding road…
Arrived at New York JFK airport 9:30pm on Oct 31st. At the Kimberly Hotel E50th in Manhattan by 11pm. Next morning moved to the Lotte New York Palace Hotel on Madison Ave. Weather clear skies with temperature around 14C. In the afternoon walked the nearby streets and visited St Patrick’s Cathedral, Rockefeller Center, Times Square,…
Arrived in Fusina at 7am. This is now the closest cruise terminal for Venezia since they banned cruise ships. It is also a ferry terminal and about 18.5km from Venezia. A wet rainy morning with temperatures around 16C. Our tour today was just a boat ride into Venezia then free time to explore. We boarded…
Arrived in Koper around 7am and docked close to the town center. This is the largest coastal city in Slovenia on the Adriatic and only 13 miles from Trieste in Italy. Slovenia is a relatively new country which got independence in 1991 and has a population of 2 Million. The day started cloudy and dry…
Arrived in Dubrovnik, Croatia around 7am. Dubrovnik is on the Dalmation coast in southern Croatia. A warm, sunny day with temperatures reaching 19C. Todays tour was north, out to the Neretva river delta. A small group of only 13 and our guide was Sanja, a local woman. Boarded our bus and headed along the coast…
Arrived at Kotor, Montenegro around 8am having negotiated the channel into the bay. A very mountainous region on a rainy morning. Kotor (Cattaro) is in the southern region of Montenegro (Crna Gora) on the Balkan peninsula. Montenegro is about 85% mountains with a population around 630,000. The capital is Podgorica which is in the interior….
Arrived at Igoumentisa around 10am and docked. This is a coastal city in Northwestern Greece near the Albanian border. It is a busy car ferry port with a population around 11,000. A mostly sunny day with temperatures up to 23C later. Our tour commenced at 10:15am with 24 of us and our guide was Nina….
Arrived early morning at the port of Gythion otherwise know as Gytheio or Gythio or Gythium. It is on the eastern shore of the Mani Peninsula in southern Greece. A small town with a population of 4500 that features neo-classical architecture. Had an early tour meeting at 6:45am to tender ashore on a rainy morning….
Arrived off the Greek Aegean Island of Santorini at 7am. This is part of the Cyclades group of islands. A partly sunny day with temperatures up to 22C by the afternoon. An 8.30am tour took us by tender to the shore where about 30 of us transferred to our 2 masted barque. A 20 minute…
Arrived in Kusadasi, Turkey at 7am. This is a resort town on the Aegean coast. Population is about 180,000 with many foreigners who have bought houses here since the government relaxed restrictions on purchasing. An overcast day with a few showers and temp around 20C. Majority of the tours from here go to the nearby…
Arrived at anchor off Mytilene (Mitilini) on the Greek Aegean island of Lesbos (Lesvos) at 9am Monday Oct 20th. This is the 3rd largest Greek island just off the coast of Turkey. A poor island with a decreasing population. Went off on a bus tour to 2 local churches with our guide Christina. Drove south…
Kavala is mainland northern Greece, population 57000. We arrived at 12:30 on Saturday Oct 18th. There is a castle overlooking the town. Weather was overcast and around 20C. At 1:30pm went off on a bus tour to Xanthi about 50km away. We were on grey bus #12. Our tour guide, Chryssa was a young lady…
Arrived Istanbul (Byzantium, Constantinople) at 17:15 on Thursday October 16th. Staying at Intercontinental Hotel. An overcast evening around 20C. Walked out in the evening to nearby Taksim Square with the prominent mosque. Carried on walking down the busy pedestrian Istiklal Street with the shops, restaurants, historic buildings. Out walking again next morning across Taksim Square…
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