Unique Street Musician in Como Italy Playing Glass Bottle Xylophone
In Como Italy, near the Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, we came across this street musician playing a glass bottle Xylophone – blindfolded. [read more]
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How to Use Your Own Boat in Venice Italy (If You’re Not George Clooney) With Form You Need
How to Use Your Personal Motor Boat in Venice (if you’re not George Clooney): Boat traffic is highly regulated and licensed in Venice. If your plan is to sail to Venice as we are doing this summer in our Antares catamaran and take your dinghy up the canals, be aware of the rules. If your [read more]
The Straits of Messina
Turbulent water of the Strait of Messina How could the Strait of Messina not hold allure? Whirlpools and maelstroms; mythic sea monsters; earthquakes and epic sea currents! To get to Greece and Turkey from Italy where we’d been sailing for the last month, your either transit the Strait of [read more]
Sardinia & Corsica – Costa Smeralda, the Maddalenas & Strait of Bonifacio
Sardinia overflows with scenic splendor. In an earlier post, we shared how sublimely beautiful we found the Golfo di Orosei to be, and how much we loved being there, especially after the day-trippers departed. It turned out to be our favorite cruising spot in Sardinia, and now that we’ve left [read more]
Florence, Italy – Michelangelo, Galileo, Leonardo & Vino
One of the wonderful aspects of our global sailing tour is the ability to visit remarkable cultural and historical parts of the world. Sometimes they are land-locked and we have to take an excursion farther from Golden Glow. Last weekend we took the high speed train to Florence, yet another pearl [read more]
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