This sleek wooden sailing yacht
Accommodations for guests consist of five large and
comfortable cabins.
A Smaller Sailing Ketch Cruising Greece And Turkey Another Sailing Ketch Cruising Greece And Turkey A Luxury Sailing Ketch Cruising Greece And Turkey A Large Schooner Cruising Greece And Turkey This page last updated on 11/25/2011 Dear Homo Sapiens, There is no need to continue reading
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would be right on the mark as this web page is about luxury cruising in Greece and Turkey. One of
the earliest personages to enjoy a luxury cruise in this part of the world, modern Greece and Turkey,
was the cobra-diademed Queen of Egypt. She came up from Alexandria on several occasions, first in
46 BC as a 22-year-old queen en route to Rome to plead Egypt's case before the Roman Senate, and the
last in 32 BC with Antony and his Roman war galleys. In addition to war galleys she had
with her on this occasion four canopied barges carrying the entire Egyptian treasury. Luxury
yachts of the ancient world. They paused often, as was the nature of barges and galleys, to collect
taxes, to gather food stuffs, and to rest. Antony and Cleopatra, moreover, were on a long-delayed
honeymoon. The record of their passage does not tell us all of the places at which they paused along
the Anatolian coast but it does mention Perge, Arycanda, Patara, Lydae, Loryma, new Knidos, Cedreae,
Halikarnassus, and Ephesus, and one might well imagine it also included wealthier cities such as Side,
Aspendos, and Phaselis. History tells us that when Cleopatra saw fit to explore this fascinating coast
she did so supported by litter bearers, the forerunner of magic carpets and then the ultimate in luxury
travel ashore. We know that one of the reasons Cleopatra traveled ashore at Halikarnassus (modern
Bodrum) was to visit the scene of Alexander's longest Near Eastern siege, a 334 BC assault in which
her forebear and founder of the Egyptian dynasty Ptolemy I Soter participated as Alexander's
principal lieutenant. We know, too, that she visited nearby Kos, birthplace of Soter's son Ptolemy II
Philadelphus. And for the rest she had a proprietary interest stemming from Egypt's third and second
century BC rule here. Finally we know she went on to Samos after Ephesus because Samos was the
jumping off point for shipping crossing the Aegean, and an Aegean crossing was the only way to get to
Actium. And that's how we get back to Uadjet. All but the last of these places along Cleopatra's
honeymoon route were Uadjet's heaven. Actium, modern Preveza, as we all know was Uadjet's hell
and Octavian's heaven. So whether you are dreaming of a Blue Cruise or of Cleopatra's honeymoon route,
perhaps on your own honeymoon anniversary, you might charter a luxury sailing yacht to cruise through
history along Turkey's Turquoise Coast and among Dodecanese Islands of Greece. Come aboard Cobra Queen,
a luxury sailing yacht offering a holiday par excellence. Come aboard a crewed charter yacht
with an experienced crew able to show you the Dodecanese islands of Greece or Cleopatra's route up the
Turkish coast to Samos. A proper yacht luxury cruising in Greece and Turkey. Contact
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