Author: Peter

4-10 April Close your eyes for a minute. Imagine a tropical paradise. Pristine sandy beach, clear blue sea with gentle waves lapping onto the shore. At the top of the beach a wall of palm trees, with lazy trunks at

1st to 4th April Istanbul Istanbul humms with people. Commuters, tourists, hawkers, people with urgent errands. Streets with parked cars, cars blocking narrow roads, cyclists on pavements, motorbikes. Impatient hooting and jostling. Underground metro with fast streams of passengers flowing

29th March to 1st April Selçuk Selcuk is a lovely town, with a delightful blend of the modern, the medieval and the ancient.   We visited the remnants of St.John’s Basilica, which is said to house the tomb of St. John,

27-29 March Fethiye We were glad to have two nights in Fethiye, which appeared to us as a small town with a large marina. After checking in at our hotel, La Farine, we went in search of a restaurant. The

March 28, 2023 Reflections on our travel choices. We are only 2 weeks into our journey, but our ideas on our approach have been developing as we go. We arrived In Fethiye, with 2 hotel nights booked and a vague

March 24 – 26, 2023 Our ship arrived in the Commercial Port in Rhodes on a lovely spring morning. The sun was glinting on the waves and the marina yacht sails were flapping in the stiff breeze – and we

21st to 24th March Athens sports over three million people, and is one of the world’s oldest cities, with recorded history dating back to 1,200 BC. This was evidenced by the frantic traffic on dense, intertwined steep streets, with parked

18th to 21st March Having touched down at the very North of Italy, and the very South, it was time to move on. The ferry from Bari to Patras, in Greece, was not small…. Built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in

15th to 18th March We had a glorious morning in Torino after a somewhat disturbed night in a cramped bed. But the shower was hot, if a bit wonky, after waiting eons for hot water. Caffe and croissant outdoors before

First Thoughts – Lynne We’re on our way, hooray…! … a day later than planned, and taking an aeroplane first off – which was not really how we wanted to travel. But flexibility is key. We are now flying to Turin