After Canakkale we entered the Sea of Marmara and overnighted on Avsa Island in an unfinished marina. It's been like this for well over 10 years but we don't know why - if the poor condition of the concreting is anything to go by it could have been a dispute that ended in it not being finished. It was a great spot to stay and wait for a good weather window to get across to Istanbul which is about a 10 hour trip. We eventually left with a bit of a head wind that s...

Well, here we are back in Turkiye waiting at Istanbul for our flight to Bodrum in about 4 hours. Good flights - 9 1/2 and 101 /2, with 6 hours in Singapore. Good flights and plenty of sleep. The last weeks in Brisbane were hectic - not helped by Peter getting our departure day wrong by one whole day. We managed a last catch up with Peter's families which involves his daughter and her partner and three grandsons and their partners and saw little great grandson Way...