141. Sailing into a Crisis: Discovering Migrant Boats in Italy
Unfortunately. It had to happen at some point. When you sail along the coast of southern Italy. Then sooner or later it will happen. You come face to face with the migrant problem by sea. And that has now happened to us. I want to write about, it because it touched me deeply. I wanted […]
140. Sicily
For the last 5 weeks we have been sailing along the coast of Sicily and visiting the island. The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea is approximately 250 by 100 kilometers in size, so it is about half the size of the Netherlands. More than 5 million inhabitants live in Sicily, and the western part […]
Nr 139. The 10 musthaves on a worldtrip sailing
In the interview that Zeilwereld held with us in 2023, journalist Riemer Witteveen asked us the question: ‘Name something you really can’t miss on the boat!’. We answered, it was challenging to only mention 1 thing, but we did 😉. This question still stuck in my head later: what could I really not live without? […]
138. X-mas at Mount Etna
It was time to prepare the crossing through the Strait of Messina from Calabria to Sicily. We choose the smallest part in the Strait, in the north, which is 3 kilometers wide (maximum width is 8 km). It doesn’t sound very difficult, but it is a lot different than planning a trip along the coast, […]
137. Sailing 2023
Our year of sailing in 2023 in 4,5 minutes! We selected the most beautiful pictures of 2023 to show the must sees of the Mediterranean Sea Sea that we sailed, from Gibraltar to Sicily: – Jan/Feb: Spain (south east)– Feb/March: Ibiza & Mallorca– April: Spain (north east)– May/June/July: France (Cote d’Azur & Monaco)– August: Italy (north […]
136. Calabria
We started to sail the southernmost region of the Italian mainland, called Calabria. It is perhaps the most unspoiled region of Italy, with mighty rocks rising out of the sea and very clear water. This is the last part of the southeast coast of Italy that we are going to sail, before we make the […]
135. Capri and Amalfi Coast
In this area around Naples, there is so much to see! So this is the third part of our sail in the bay, I’ve written about visiting the cities around The Bay of Naples and visiting Pompei and Herculaneum. We sailed further along the coastline, and went to the island of Capri and the Amalfi […]
134. Pompeii and Herculaneum
When we sailed the Bay of Naples, we also visited Pompeii and Herculaneum. Two cities of the ancient Roman Empire that got destroyed by the eruption of volcano Vesuvius. I’ve written sailing in the Bay of Naples and now we like to write an extra blog on our visits of Pompeii and Herculaneum, because it […]
133. Bay of Naples
Sailing further south on the coast of Italy, we came to the bay of Naples, which is a great place to be. The volcanic landscape made it a spectacular site with mountains and villages build against those mountainsides. And also a lot of excavations of the ancient Roman Empire can be found here, next to […]
132. The coast of Lazio
Sailing further south along the coastline of the regio Lazio, where Rome is het most important city, we have sailed this trajectory since the harbor we stayed in on the river Tiber near Rome: During wintertime in Italy, some harbors are closed and the Westcoast of Italy has not much sheltered bays, also because the […]