Welcome Aboard Common Sense

We are now the proud holders of Turkish Residency Permits for the next twelve months, which will enable us to take our time exploring this a...

Legend has it that Antalya was founded when Attalos II of Pergamum sent his servants off in all directions to find a ‘Paradise on earth’. ...

Finike itself is an unremarkable town in the tourist sense.  It has been settled for thousands of years and is named after its founders, th...

Our first landfall in Turkey was in Kekova Roads, a large lagoon protected by an offshore island. As we motored past the gulets moored in ...

Amstel   One of my favourite drinks.    The complaint about this beer is that it comes from a major brewery.   Probably not “trendy”...

  Simi is about 20 nautical miles due east of Nisiros, right in the Gulf of Doris in Turkey. Lots of cruisers had recommended a visit:...

We enjoyed another fine day's sailing from Astipalea to the large island of Cos, which is in the eastern Dodecanese, pinched between t...