Missy Bear 
Seasons III to V:
The Bear returns...

Fethiye Fish Market - almost empty at lunch time If you went to a supermarket in Turkey in 2014, you might have paid 10 Turkish Lira...

We’ve seen how tectonic activity around this part of Anatolia has razed entire ancient towns to rubble, and sunk ancient ports into the...

I was a little sad to leave the ‘Yacht Classic’ hotel pontoon in Fethiye, but we were soon sailing across to the other side of the large...

With Tony and Lynn on board, and victualled-up, we continued eastwards for our next adventure. Over the Turkish mainland, and to our...

In his book, ‘ A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’, Anthony Bale describes the trials and tribulations of pilgrims heading from northern...

We had been away from England now for seven weeks, and I was starting to looked a bit like a raggedy, wind-swept sailor. My longer,...

South Western Anatolia Missy Bear's journey (so far) this season We have now spent a month sailing east and now westwards along this...

By Wednesday (30 April), we were on Mehmet’s restaurant pontoon in Ciftlik, just south-west of the bay of Marmaris. Our weather app,...

Our first close encounter with a gulet was in about 2002 in the bay of Gokova, when one such vessel reversed hard-astern towards a “gap”...

There we were, leaving Leros Marina to sail to Kos to check out of Greece. Well, when I say sail, I mean motor. Conditions were calm, and...

Dirsek From the land of the myriad, skinny, begging cats, hanging around dinner tables, we have crossed into the land of the large,...

Apparently, the term “ muscle memory ” appeared in the English lexicon between 1885 and 1890, although I must admit I wasn’t aware of it...

The Datca peninsular We were not in Greece for long. We launched Missy Bear on the afternoon of the same day we arrived by car ferry...

The journey by foot from our canal-side hotel back to 'car-park island' (Tronchetto) was probably not too long as the crow flies. But,...

We had one more night before we needed to catch our ferry from Ancona to Igoumenitsa. We’d thought we would stay in Rimini, to have a...

We have arrived in our second Venice. The Venice. Magical Venice. Mercantile Venice. The capital of the Stato da Mar. Capital of the...

I mentioned before that one of my university friends, Teresa, was working briefly in North Italy while we were there, and we’d arranged...

We’d originally planned to have a two-night stop before crossing the Alps, so that we could get some laundry done. But with the great...

Looking north from the Fern Pass, Austria Well, we are on day six of our grand tour to Leros and I’m in bed in the guesthouse looking out...

We were still in Greece in Autumn 2024, when Richard started to talk about driving down to Leros next season. There are always a few...