Category: World Trip 2023

12th – 15th April Journey to Mysuru The most challenging thing in leaving our hotel, in Hosapeta, was breakfast. An inviting buffet presented itself, however lifting the silver lids of the warming pans did not reveal the expected scrambled eggs,

10th -12th April Journey What an unexpected delight was the drive to Londa Junction over the mountains of the Western Ghats and through the Mollem National Park and Bhagwan Mahavir Wild Life Sanctuary. There was little traffic, but as the

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