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A Smaller Luxury Gulet Chartering Turkey and Greece Another Luxury Gulet Chartering Turkey and Greece This page last updated on 04/28/2008 Dear Homo Sapiens, There is no need to continue reading this page. What follows is intended for search engine robots and spiders and not necessarily for human beings. Further information concerning gulets chartering Turkey and Greece in comfort may be obtained by clicking on the blue links immediately above. Thank You. You may be searching for Robin William's oft quoted use of carpe diem: "But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? — Carpe — hear it? — Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary." Or you may be searching for a dead poet such as Horace who in 65 BC wrote: "Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero." (As we speak, jealous Time flees. Pluck the day, believing as little as possible in the next.) If not searching for a dead poet's society you may be searching for the Polish pub of the name Carpe Diem II. Whatever the case you have found a sailing gulet chartering Turkey and Greece in well appointed comfort. A sailing gulet on Blue Cruise in the eastern Mediterranean. Cruising among Aegean islands of Greece. Cruising along the pine-clad coast of Turkey. Sailing through history. If you weren't thinking before of a gulet chartering Turkey and Greece in exquisite comfort, think about it now. Think about a crewed charter gulet with accommodations for five couples. Think about the sailing gulet Carpe Diem II. Think about a crewed gulet chartering Greece and Turkey in the wake of corsairs and privateers, in the wake, for example, of Aruj Reis. Cruising the coast of Asia Minor and among neighboring Greek islands. Aruj Reis (Aruj Captain) was the eldest of six children born to Greek parents on the Aegean island of Lesbos, the father a former Ottoman janissary, the mother Greek with Andalusian roots. Four of the six children were boys, two later known as Barbarossa, Aruj the eldest. Aruj got his sea legs fishing the waters off Lesbos and his habit of command in the service of the Mamluk Khedive of Egypt. He learned even more as a slave in the galleys of the Knights of Rhodes. Ransomed for far too little by Prince Korkut, son of Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II, Aruj went on to become a scourge of the Latin Aegean, his victims Venetians and Genovese and, occasionally, Knights Hospitaller. By 1516 Aruj had founded the kingdom of Algiers and become its ruler, the second Barbarossa brother, Khizr, his principal lieutenant. Long before the brothers Barbarossa the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts of Turkey were the haunt of ancient Greeks, like the Athenian superhero Alcibiades, ward of Pericles and protege of Socrates. He was here during the Spartan War, first on the side of the Athenians, then on the side of the Spartans, and finally, having seduced the Spartan king's wife, again on the side of the Athenians. Why not charter Greece and Turkey in his wake? While you holiday in style and comfort aboard a five-star gulet. While you proceed from pine-encircled cove to remote island. Why not have an extended-family holiday aboard a crewed sailing gulet cruising through history in these waters. Reach out to cousins if need be. Or have a group of friends holiday with you aboard a charter gulet proceeding leisurely from fascinating locale to fascinating locale. Perhaps cruising into the Cyclades. Cruising from Turkey into the central Aegean once a favorite haunt of the Barbarossa brothers as well as of Alcibiades. Starting in Bodrum. Are you searching for Bodrum in Turkey? Well, it is eleven nautical miles NE of Kos Town on the north shore of the Ceramic Gulf. There or elsewhere we can put you aboard a charter gulet with an experienced crew able to show you tracks left by the Barbarossa brothers, to show you tracks left by the other two brothers without auburn beards, to show you Alcibiades' 411 BC path down the coasts of Caria and Lycia to Phaselis, to show you the route of Persian fleets then threatening to come to the assistance of Spartans and to the peril of Athenians. Carpe Diem II, a superb crewed gulet chartering Greece and Turkey in exquisite comfort. And knowledgeable of local history, too. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at bcycharter@aol.com |
