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Visited Oct 12, 2014 Cavtat is the closest harbor to the Dubrovnik airport, and also is a fine anchorage (or two, really). Cavtat sits on a point, and two harbors flank this beautiful peninsula that features a pretty path all … Continue reading →

Otak Molat, Croatia September 18 Maybe it was just time to get some slower paced island time or maybe this day WAS really this interesting. Or maybe, like the title suggests, twisted is in the eye of the beholders. On … Continue reading →

Amante (really, her crew) is rather famous for having no plan. Why plan when weather, unforeseen potential buyers, weather, cheese festivals, weather, wine festivals, weather, jazz festivals, weather, a friend we met last week happens to be in Italy and … Continue reading →

Is that it is off center.

Fano, Italy. Part of the former Roman riveira, packed with nearly forgotten history and a nearly forgotten shipyard. Like our winter home last year, La Ciotat in France, Fano has a long shipyard past that is rather quiet these days. … Continue reading →

Montenegro has a history that is so complicated that my only hope is to point you here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro Suffice it to say that nearly every civilization since before there was civilization has been through these beautiful mountains, leaving marks on … Continue reading →

I knew that Dubrovnik was another beautiful walled city perched on an outcropping of rock. I had heard that is was bombed to bits by the Yugoslav Peoples Army in the war in the 1990s and restored to something of … Continue reading →

We went in and found the town wall empty, so we decided to stay. It is very rare to be able to tie up side to in the med, but it allowed lots of folks to walk up and get … Continue reading →

We anchored near Ston, and took the dinghy in to see the Ston Saltworks, a salt collection that still operates today the way it has since Medieval time. Ston connects the Pelješik peninsula to the mainland, so a wall was … Continue reading →