Once again, I went up to Valletta’s old town, had a good breakfast, then drove from my parking spot to the petrol station in the marina, filled up with petrol and radioed the port authorities to let them know I was leaving – and then I sped off. My destination is Lampedusa; I’m interested in […]

Off to Malta! Out into the open Mediterranean! – I don’t know exactly what I’m doing. With a leaky pontoon. Without any telephone or internet contact to the “outside world”. And on top of that, one of the displays on a Suzuki engine is malfunctioning … But something is driving me forward. – I want […]

Wind and waves lash against the coast, the ArgoFram rocks violently, seawater splashes over the windows into my cockpit, I reduce my speed – but everything is fine so far, all the pontoons are filled with air and it’s not too far to Portopalo, a place I’ve found and which no one else seems to […]

Finally in Syracuse – a place I’ve longed to visit, the city and place of work of Archimedes! I’ve been to Sicily many times, but this is my first time here.

While Pythagoras provided more theoretical insights and taught me how to live wisely, Archimedes embodies the inventor, the experimenter, the one who becomes smarter […]

Another 300 km, another few hours on the water, another ideal sea – but this time with a worried view of the pontoon, which is actually losing air again. What’s going on?

It’s Sunday. Marko has contacted the manufacturer of the pontoons, an Italian company… but of course everything is closed in Catania today. First […]

The weather is fantastic; I say goodbye to the border authorities and Greece, sail in large loops around the winding bay back into the open Ionian Sea and set course directly for Crotone in Italy. The 300 km or so fly by – the ArgoFram speeds across the slightly choppy sea, and I reach the […]

Now it’s time to move on – conditions look good for the next few days and I’m thinking about heading to Crotone in Italy, the former home of Milon of Croton (Milon lived in the sixth century BC and was the outstanding athlete – and military leader – of his time and multiple Olympic champion). […]

Katakolo is something of a place I have always longed to visit, even though I have never been there before… Here is the long bay that served as a landing place for participants and visitors to the Olympic Games for hundreds of years, from the 11th century BC to the 6th century AD!

Today’s Katakolo […]

Once again, Georges was right… once again, I’m being hit by waves from the north that aren’t visible on the weather apps! This time, I’m on my way from Crete to the Peloponnese, so I’m staying a little further north than planned to better face the wind and waves: a game or dance at significantly […]

Gavdos was really good for me. I like this island – apart from the landlady and her husband, the policewoman and the e-bike rental guy, I didn’t make any contacts, so this time it’s the island itself that I’ve taken to my heart (like Akri). But on we go, to the south-west coast of Crete, […]