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Makarma's log: June 2013

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A Slow Post from the Mediterranean. Honor visits and it blows like stink. The meltemi arrived the same day Honor landed at Izmir airport for a week’s holiday onboard. No chance of the gentle day sails with a lunch stop at anchor we’d planned when the forecast is showing northerly force 6&7 all week, day and night. Luckily Honor’s not an ultra keen sailor so she doesn’t mind that the boat’s staying firmly tied up in Teos marina. After sampling the local grape sherbet and watching a weaver on his loom in a...

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Makarma's log: June 2012

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A Slow Post from the Mediterranean. Makarma - the movie. This is for those of you who still cling to the idea that sailing in the Med is all about too much wind or too little wind. Here's Makarma strutting her stuff in the gulf of Antalya on a perfect early summer's afternoon. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's magic! We owe a big thank you to Mike and Corinne on Cleophea who were on hand to record the moment for us . Holy Moly' - it’s Cleophea! Pirate gulet steaming out of Alanya harbour.

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Makarma's log: July 2013

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A Slow Post from the Mediterranean. In search of the Great Mother Goddess. I have seen the Hanging Gardens of ancient Babylon," wrote a traveller, Philon of Byzantium, "the statue of Olympian Zeus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the mighty work of the Pyramids and the tomb of Mausolus. But when I saw the temple of Artemis at Ephesus rising to the clouds, all these other wonders were put in the shade.". Storks nesting at the top of the column. Christianity finally brought an end to several centuries of Artemis w...

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Makarma's log: December 2012

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A Slow Post from the Mediterranean. Here's wishing you a very merry Christmas with fair winds and calm seas in 2013, wherever you go. This year we're spending Christmas with the family in Devon and fly back to Turkey on 30th December in time to see the New Year in at Finike marina. It'll be good to get a break from the floods in UK. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Under sail in Turkey. Leighton and Cathy King. View my complete profile. Makarma up for sale.

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Makarma's log: December 2013

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A Slow Post from the Mediterranean. Makarma is up for sale. Why are we exchanging our lifestyle of the last five years exploring the Med for the one we’ll go back to? Well, for us one of the main reasons for cruising the Med is to explore remote places we wouldn’t otherwise visit. The experience has immeasurably enriched our lives. But for the first time this year we got the sense we are just doing more of the same. The trouble is, we’ve run out of Med to explore! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Makarma's log: May 2013

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A Slow Post from the Mediterranean. The forecast was for W3 - a gentle reach. But we’re hard on the wind with two rolls in the genoa beating into a NW5 wondering if we’ll make the approach into Ayvalik without being blown onto a lee shore. This is serious - we've got the chart out! After a salty three hours we ease off the wind and relax, entering the narrow channel into the sheltered water of Ayvalik ‘lake’ to drop the sails inside. What could be better - dinner with friends. While it’s still calm...

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Makarma's log: April 2013

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A Slow Post from the Mediterranean. While we were back in Devon during November and December, we had more or less constant rain and leaden skies. So despite the cold temperatures it was a relief to get back here to the marina in Finike at the start of the New Year. Copious fruit n veg at the Saturday market. Fellow cruisers at the regular Sunday BBQ. Our neighbours over the winter are Swedish couple Ann Kristin and Jan-Oke on S/Y Doris. Ataturk overlooks the sea. Hadrian's Gate in Antalya. Subscribe to: ...

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Makarma's log: July 2012

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A Slow Post from the Mediterranean. Journey to Middle Earth. There’s a heatwave forecast for the coast and with a week to spare before we go back to UK, we decide to head up into the Anatolian plateau to visit Cappadocia. At an altitude of 4,500 feet, we hope to escape the worst of the heat. It's supposed to be amazing.and it is. Our pension is just below this castle at Uchisar. How the hell do you get in the front door? Entrance to a rock church. This church was only discovered 10 years ago. It’s ...

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Makarma's log: The Leros bus goes on a little adventure

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A Slow Post from the Mediterranean. The Leros bus goes on a little adventure. A car is blocking the road on our way back - the bus doesn’t normally come this way. No problem. The driver gets out and pushes it into someone’s driveway so we can squeeze past. A Greek Orthodox priest runs out - he's parked the car to drop in on one of his parishioners. Soon we’re back on the normal route - about twenty minutes behind schedule. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Under sail in Turkey. Leighton and Cathy King.