I guess I need to explain that statement. I know many people like Marrakech, and yes that city has some nice historic buildings, like palaces and the old Medina, but…
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In Marrakech, we stayed in the Medina, which means walled city and is the old trade center or bazaar. The hotels there are old houses turned into hotels which are…
Taxis in Morocco drive me crazy! We got out of the airport in Casablanca and a guy came to us and said taxi? We said yes please, how much? He…
I must admit our Morocco trip hasn’t started off well as we ended up in a really funny city in western Sahara [Shane – Laayoune} which we wrote about! But…
Our first town in Morocco didn’t turn out as we expected! It was a little town and there was supposed to be some Spanish ruins but we never found them!…
Shane wrote about our road trip starting from Canakkale – Marmara Sea / Dardanelles towards the Aegean coast. There are many historic sites to see there as well as beautiful…
As you all know by now, we sailed around the Carrabbean starting from St. Barts to beautiful Antigua & Barbuda to St. Kitts and my favorite place Nevis, as well…
In the islands, life is generally quite relaxed, they are not in a hurry to do anything. That’s why most of the time we had to wait for customs or…
After our little engine problem with the dingy (we wrote about it in the previous blog) we started our third day of exploring the Nevis. Our first stop was the…
Shane wrote about our engine problem that stopped working half way to Barbuda during our Antigua blogs. Well this time as we while we were in Nevis and motoring towards…
This is the fifth island that we have been to so far, I liked something about every island but Nevis was the best by far! I couldn’t believe how many…
As many of you know, you don’t really get any exciting moments while sailing other than seeing other boats and if you`re luckily some dolphins might come to say hi….
After beautiful Antigua, we sailed to an island with big mountains. Apparently, they were volcanos! One of them is active and the other 2 are not. Shane is gonna write…
After silent, calm and peaceful Barbuda, Antigua is more like a city. Still there are only a few people around especially during the day time, in the night time due…
On Thursday I told you about our first day in Barbuda and the adventure we had! Today I will continue with the second half of that day as after a…
On the third day of our time in St Barts we anchored to an island called Ile Fourchue, which was about an hour north of St. Barts. It was a…
As many of you know I am off to cruising around upper Caribbean with Shane, and he had a dream about going to an island called Sombrero where no one…
[Shane – So what did Melek think of her week aboard with me? Let’s find out] I have sailed on a boat before (but it was around 20 years ago)…
[Shane – Melek hits it square on the head. Exactly what I have written several times] Sometimes we can fear something with no real reason and hesitate to try it!…
[Shane – Here is another blog by Melek.] Of course, there are many nice things about being on a boat; sea, sun, turtles, nature… But for me the best thing…
[Shane – my girlfriend was able to visit me from Turkey a couple weeks ago and she has written a couples blogs for you guys to read. Enjoy!] When you’re…