Category: Musings

  • Crossing the Rubicon….or No Way Out of this Fine Mess

    Crossing the Rubicon….or No Way Out of this Fine Mess

    It’s been a few weeks since I have written anything and a LOT has happened.  We have fondly farewelled Turkey, entered Greece and started our own Odyssey through the Greek Islands.  3 months of jewel like islands in azure seas stretch ahead of us as we need to reset our Turkish visa which means we…

  • Talking Turkey

    Talking Turkey

    When we arrived in Turkey and flew south to Dalaman we flew perilously close to snow covered peaks as we descended into the heart of the Turquoise coast of Turkey.  Annoyed at the cost of a taxi we caught the bus as the daylight softened into evening.  We drove through towns with mosques so different…

  • A Meditation on Boat life

    A Meditation on Boat life

    The Fethiye Gulf has been inhabited for eons.  Civilisations have risen and fallen, cities built and abandoned.  Legends told and ruins explored give a tantalising glimpse into just how long humans have inhabited these lands and how they have done so.  The Fethiye Gulf is a part of what is known as the Lycian coast…