Charter Destinations

Stromboli has been erupting almost continuously for somewhere between two and five thousand years, throwing a glow on th...

Until 1832, there was no road along the Amalfi coast at all, and you got from one town to the next by sea. The towns wer...

There are four Balearic Islands most people have heard of, and a fifth most haven't. Cabrera is the smallest of the chai...

The British Virgin Islands are the most-chartered cruising ground in the Caribbean, and one of the most-chartered anywhe...

For ten years between 27 and 37 AD, the Roman emperor Tiberius ran the empire from Capri. He built twelve villas around ...

The Caribbean is shorthand for at least four different yacht charter regions, each with its own rhythm. The British Virg...

Corsica is French politically and Italian-ish in most other ways. The interior is a mountain range that rises to Monte C...

In 305 AD, the Roman emperor Diocletian retired to Split, on the Croatian Adriatic, and built a palace on the bay that h...

If you've ever pictured a Greek island, you've pictured one of the Cyclades. The archipelago is roughly 200 islands scat...

The name Dodecanese means 'twelve islands' in Greek, but there are actually over 160 of them. The dozen that count are t...

Almost everything you see in Dubai's skyline was built after 1990. The federation of the United Arab Emirates was founde...

Overwater bungalows were invented in French Polynesia in 1967 by three Californians, Hugh Kelley, Jay Carlisle and Don '...

The Côte d'Azur was a winter resort before it was a summer one. Through the 19th century, the English aristocracy came d...

Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world, made up of around 17,000 islands spread across 5,000 kilometres of oc...

The Ionian Islands were never Ottoman. While the rest of Greece was under Constantinople for four centuries, the seven i...

The Maldives is the lowest country on earth, with an average ground elevation of about 1.5 metres above sea level. The n...

Malta has buildings that are older than Stonehenge and older than the Pyramids of Giza. The Ġgantija temples on Gozo wer...

Monaco is two square kilometres of land, and the Grimaldi family have ruled it since 1297. There is no income tax, no sh...

Most travel writing calls the Bay of Kotor the southernmost fjord in Europe. Strictly speaking, it isn't a fjord but a r...

Newport, Rhode Island, hosted the America's Cup defence for 53 consecutive years between 1930 and 1983, the longest stre...

The Bay of Islands is 144 islands packed into a coastal pocket on New Zealand's North Island. It was where the country w...

The Stockholm archipelago has roughly 30,000 islands. Most of them have nobody on them, and most of those that do have a...

The Inside Passage is a 1,600-kilometre sheltered waterway running from Seattle up through British Columbia and into the...

The Red Sea is geologically the youngest ocean basin on Earth, formed by the Arabian and African tectonic plates pulling...

Sardinia has more than 7,000 nuraghi standing on the island. They are bronze-age stone towers, built between roughly 190...

Hydra has no cars. The island banned motorised vehicles by presidential decree in the mid-20th century, and the rule has...

The Seychelles are the only mid-ocean granite islands in the world. The 42 inner islands of the archipelago are made of ...

Sicily has the better Greek temples. Agrigento's Valley of the Temples, on the south coast, holds the most-preserved Dor...

Phang Nga Bay is the place most people have in mind when they think of yachting in Thailand: 42 limestone karst islands ...

The Bahamas is in the Atlantic, not the Caribbean, but it works like the Caribbean and sits closer to Miami than any of ...

Bodrum is the modern name for Halicarnassus, the Carian capital where one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World once...

On 31 March 1917, the United States bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million in gold coin, and Transfer Da...

Whitehaven Beach in the Whitsundays is 98 percent silica sand, finer and whiter than almost any other sand on Earth. The...