We took advantage of our beautiful little island of Aegina and headed out for a Sunday stroll not far from our boat yard in Planaco to hike a nearby hillside dotted small churches. These tiny chapels are the Mystras of Aegina, and they sit along the slopes overlooking the valley below like aged old men …
Skirting along Montenegro’s coastline, we came across this little white church precariously perched atop a craggy island cliff. As we sailed past, it beguiled me and I made the captain circle around so I could see her closer. Captain’s don’t like changing course but he’s a good man and obliged. We decided to settle …
Our road trip up to the Austrian MotoGP took us near Vienna so we made room for a stopover to take it in. We stayed right around the corner from the spectacular St. Stephen’s Cathedral so our early morning stroll beat the crowds and the rising sun splashed everything with vibrant shimmering gold. Seeing St. …
The wind has picked up and has been whipping really good here in Kotor’s bay. Just as it did the last time we were here. The steep mountains act like a huge bernoulli tube which concentrates the wind and rushes it down over the mountains, sweeping down into with a steady push into the bay …
We had to go back one more time to Kotor to let our oldest kids take in the old city, conquer the castle stairs that reach a pitch so high up the mountain side that you think you’ll never get there, and cradle ourselves one more time beneath the steep cliffs that rise above the …
We took a little road trip into the heart of Montenegro to visit Ostrog Monastery. I’m not sure how it was possible to build this monastery on the face of a steep cliff—in the 17th century no less—but both hiking up to it and ducking inside the two tiny chapels inside caves—will equally take …
After our tour of the former Yugoslav submarine caves our boat driver took us over to a little island with a great big history. The island is man-made, the continuous commemoration of two fisherman who, back in July 22, 1452, discovered an icon of the Madonna and child on a rock or floating in …
