Category Boats

Monday Morning Blues – Skyros Island in Greece
Skyros is a small island in the Sporades group that includes the better known Skiathos, Alonnisos & Skopelos. More traditional and less touristy than its neighbours, it is beautiful with sandy Aegean beaches, aromatic pine forests and a picture postcard town of white buildings & winding cobbled alleys. In fact it is a perfect destination […]

Friday Photos – Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia
Photos taken in September 2006 on the stunning Lake Ohrid, 121 km south of capital Skopje. Read about my travels there and throughout all of the Balkans countries in my new book – ‘Wilbur’s Travels, Part One, Travelling By Train Across The Balkans’

Monday Morning Blues #11 – Vonitsa, Greece
Today’s photo was taken a few years ago in the Greek town of Vonitsa. The chap in the rowing boat was giving his dog a lift across the water from his home on the other side of the causeway. Why not share your ‘blue’ themed photo on Twitter to help us all beat those #mondaymorningblues

A SLOW BOAT TO CHINA
A SLOW BOAT TO CHINA Today I am going to take you on a sea journey of discovery from the fabulously wealthy former British colony of Hong Kong to The Peoples Republic of China. The year was 1991, just two years since the Tiananmen Square massacre had grabbed the world’s headlines and six years before […]