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Aegean Clipper, Bodrum

John Elkington · 29 May 2022 · Leave a Comment

A couple of days ago, on 27 May, we arrived in Bodrum, Turkey, after a nightmarish passage through Gatwick, with immense waiting times, though EasyJet was fine once we were actually aboard. We had decided to take a Peter Sommer expert-led cruise around the Dodecanese Islands in a gulet called the Aegean Clipper.

The trip involved 10 of we travellers and a crew of some 5-6, with the captain understudied by his daughter, one of several of his children now captains, or en route to taking the helm.

The photographs in this series are clustered in 12 postings, from 29 May when we first boarded the Aegean Clipper, to 12 June, when we got back to Bodrum – though that would prove to be quite another adventure.

The Aegean Clipper is somewhere in there, among the forest of masts
Street awnings billow like sails in Bodrum market
Stone threshold in castle shows signs of generations of hooves passing through
Peacock in frisky mood on the castle’s battlements
Down to earth
A technicolor version
Bodrum Castle, from a poster in the old chapel, looking like a battleship
A carved Janus head, but with alien eye holes drilled through – no idea why
Cactus flowers
View past Serpentine Tower
Distorted panorama, but rather how my right eye sees after recent operation for detached retina
Speaking of eyes
Looking across the chapel-turned-mosque to harbour
Jugs chatting in Castle museum
Raw glass dredged up from the Glass Wreck
A glass Humpty Dumpty, but stuck back together again
Ditto
Model of the Glass Wreck, above a sea of the sort of cullet it was carrying
African boy and diving suit
Amphora and WWI mine
Saying goodbye to Bodrum as the Aegean Clipper sallies forth

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I began this blog with an entry reporting on a visit to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, on 30 September 2003. The blog element of the website has gone through several iterations since, with much of the older material still available.

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