Milos - Berlin - Milos by Caique

The first picture of our site shows our caique MARGARITA (wooden fishing boat) in the twilight "at home" in Pollonia in front of our house. After fishing in the Milos area and visiting many islands of the Aegean Sea for more than 23 years, we made a dream come true and started in summer 2001 for the big trip to Germany.

The trip took us two months and lead us around the Peloponnese, north to Corfu, across to Italy, passing Sicily andt up the italian coast. Finally we made it into the river Rhone and through the french canals we reached the Rhine where we could leave the boat in Muelheim/Ruhr for the winter.

Summer 2001
Danube
Danube
France, summer 2001
France, summer 2001

In the summer of 2002, we took the caique proudly on to the Spree River in Berlin, along the Reichstag. We also made a wonderful trip to the Mecklenburg Lake District and a visit to Poland.

In the summer of 2003, it took us 7 weeks to get back to caique MARGARITA's home port on Milos via Main-Danube Canal, 2400 km Danube, Black Sea, Marmara Sea and the Aegean Sea.

Berlin, summer 2002
Berlin, summer 2002

The entire trip was now more than 10.000 km long. We went through 14 different countries. There were many encounters with nice people on our way, and we were very grateful to all, who helped and supported us.