Two-For-One Castle and Museum, Bodrum
Bodrum’s Crusader Castle Bodrum, in ancient times, was known as Halicarnassus. If this rings a bell for you, we’ll remind you why in tomorrow’s blog. [Read More…]
Destinations
Cruising the Aegean, Cast of Characters
Chuck and Lori, Your Intrepid Travel Blog Hosts We hope you’ve enjoyed our blogs the last few days describing our gulet cruise on the Turkish [Read More…]
Cruising the Aegean, Part 4
Day 6 (Thursday) – We woke up in the harbor near G?kçe and had an early breakfast. We were pulling out of the harbor by [Read More…]
Cruising the Aegean, Part 3
Day 5 (Wednesday) – We were underway before 7:00am and pulled into a harbor near the village of Gökçe a few minutes later. This was excursion [Read More…]
Cruising the Aegean, Part 2
Day 3 (Monday) – Despite having been awakened in the middle of the night by the necessity to reposition our boat, we woke up wide-eyed [Read More…]
Cruising the Aegean, Part 1
Our Gulet, the Halil Aga (Courtesy Brian Yates) We may very well have discovered one of the greatest travel secrets on the planet: a Turkish [Read More…]
Bodrum, Turkey
Bodrum, Turkey: Saint Peter’s Castle in the Distance Bodrum is a harbor town on Turkey’s southwestern coast. To its west the Aegean sea stretches [Read More…]
1 Day in Florence
il Duomo, Florence One thing I’ve learned after nearly 29 years of marriage is that, to make Lori happy, all I need to do is [Read More…]
Festa! Panicarola, Italy
According to a recent article published on Yahoo Travel, Lonely Planet cites attending international festivals as a top 10 prediction of future travel. To me [Read More…]
Unwinding in Umbria
Morning Sun in Umbria, Italy The main reason for our stopover in Italy was to get a little work and a little writing done, so [Read More…]