It was finally time for us to leave Turkey, we have had a great time visiting some lovely bays and many historical sites. ZigZag was waiting for us in Çeşme on return from our long road trip and we prepared to leave the marina. We motored around the peninsula to the main port where we […]
As Paul explained last week, our road trip continued to Troy completing our Odyssey. We left Istanbul and headed towards Troy passing over the 1915 Çanakkale suspension bridge which spans the Dardanelles. The bridge was opened by President Erdoğan in 2022. The year ‘1915’ in the name honours an important Ottoman naval victory during World […]
Prior to our current journey, which started in July 2020, we first set sail in ZigZag from the UK heading for the Mediterranean back in 2008. When we eventually reached Spain and spent the winter at the marina of Almerimar we read the stories of Homer, first the Illiad and then the Odyssey. It became […]
Energised by another extensive Turkish breakfast, we left the hotel to continue our tour around Istanbul. It was a short five minute walk back to the historic Sultanahmet district and the site of the Roman open air Hippodrome. Commissioned in the 2nd century, it had a capacity of 100,000 and for the following 1,000 years, […]
The weather forecast was for yet another meltemi wind to pass through, so instead of sitting it out on the boat for a week, we managed to get Ziggy a mooring in a marina in Çeşme, another one in the Setur group where we can stay under the terms of our winter contract. It’s very […]
It was a lovely clear sunny day with no wind as we left Kuşadası, but once we were outside of the marina, the mist descended on us as we motored into a very eerie flat sea. We planned our route to travel 46 nm north towards the Çeşme peninsula. After a couple of hours the […]
Sailing ZigZag 