A Sailing Holiday To Remember
How to put into words one of the best
experiences of your life? That's easy: "T.G. Ellyson!!" (Links in Underlined Blue Text)
The TGE's crew is experienced at sea and knowledgeable of local geography and culture. Gordon Abercrombie has cruised the Greek islands and the coast of Turkey since 1980. Jennifer Abercrombie, Brigitte Pelletier, and others of the crew have lived and worked in Turkey and have traveled through much of Greece, as well. The T.G. Ellyson normally cruises the western and southern coasts of Turkey between
the Dardanelles and Antalya. The TGE also frequently cruises among Greek islands off Turkey's coasts,
the Sporades and Dodecanese. In addition, the TGE cruises among Greece's mid-Aegean Cyclades Islands
including Paros and Santorini. Excursions even further afield are possible. A typical day aboard the T.G. Ellyson begins with a view of pine-clad slopes and crystal-clear sea. Breakfast may be taken on deck or from a stone kiln ashore. During breakfast the guests plan their day. Hiking and exploring may come next, or sailing on and off the wind. Swim stops may be frequent, depending on inclination and destination. The destination may be an idyllic cove affording opportunity to snorkel or to go kayaking, or simply to relax and read in the warmth of the sun. And in the evening guests may wish to enjoy a local taverna or the campfire cuisine of an enterprising restaurateur skilled in the art of preparing fine regional food. Nearby there may be ancient Lycian, Greek, Roman or Byzantine ruins not often seen by tourists, or the ruins of a pirate village climbing slopes from which watchful eyes once peered out to sea. Alternatively the destination might be a charming town home to wily rug merchants, to silver shops, or to an agora or bazaar offering a myriad of shopping opportunities. And likely, in such a town, the dining will be memorable. Here, there, or elsewhere, TGE guests will be meeting and conversing with people of
many nationalities and varied backgrounds, listening, learning, and experiencing the holiday of their
lives. Try it. Try it with us. Charter our yacht to sail Greece and to sail Turkey. The honeymoon
or holiday of a lifetime!
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Further information about crewed charter sailing in Greece and Turkey may be obtained by clicking on
the blue links immediately above. Thank You. The TGE offers a crewed charter yacht sailing
holiday cruising the Turquoise Coast of Turkey and among Aegean islands of Greece. Sailing in Turkey.
Sailing in Greece. U.S. policy in Afghanistan is tragically faulted. Every smart bomb programmed with
dumb intelligence kills terrified innocents. Each incidence of collateral damage in Afghanistan creates
scores of additional insurgents, members of large extended families and larger tribal families, just as
were created in Iraq. On 5 November 2003 five children were killed by U.S. forces in a night raid on a
village near Gardez, Afghanistan, a night raid which missed its intended target. One day later nine
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The TGE welcomes guests on a first-come, first-served,
basis. Those booking early are able to customize their itineraries using any or all or none of the
were killed in a U.S. air
attack on the village of Hutala, also in Afghanistan, an air attack which also missed its intended
target. In both instances the U.S. "had no indication there were noncombatants" in those
villages. As though villages in Afghanistan might be populated solely by combatants. How many
additional insurgents were created upon the death of those fifteen terrorized children? One each?
Or ten each? Alternative sailing routes and cruising areas for sailing Greece and sailing Turkey
may be found by clicking on the first bulleted link above. One of these sailing routes and cruising
areas may be a basis for the holiday or honeymoon the reader seeks. The TGE sails the Aegean and
eastern Mediterranean. A customized crewed charter yacht sailing holiday or honeymoon not to be
forgotten. A sailing holiday in Greece. A charter yacht sailing holiday cruising the Turquoise Coast
of Turkey. A Blue Cruise. On 23 May 2004 a wedding party including more than forty guests at Makr
al-Deeb in western Iraq was obliterated by successive waves of U.S. smart-bombers, attack helicopters,
and ground assault forces. This massacre replicated a similar incident on 1 July 2002 at Deh Rawud in
Afghanistan, an incident also killing more than forty innocent people attending a wedding party.
Learning absolutely nothing from these tragic errors, U.S. Air Force units on 6 July 2008 took out
still another wedding party, this one comprised of 8 innocent men and 39 innocent women and children
attending the bride's ceremonial march from her home to the groom's home in Khetai, Afghanistan. How
many additional insurgents 
were created upon the
death of those 120-plus terrorized wedding guests? One each? Or ten each? The TGE hosts honeymoons
in Greece. Or honeymoons in Turkey. A proper charter yacht sailing Greece, cruising among Greek
islands of the Aegean Sea. Island hopping. Greek island hopping. Or a crewed charter sailing yacht to
sail the southwest coast of Turkey. A honeymoon or holiday in Greece or Turkey. A honeymoon or holiday
aboard a crewed sailing yacht chartered in Greece. Or a honeymoon or holiday aboard a crewed yacht
chartered in Turkey. The incidence of collateral damage in Afghanistan and Iraq has continued unabated
throughout the ill-considered "war on terror" launched by the Bush administration. On 2 January 2006 a night air strike
on a farm near Baiji in Iraq's Salahuddin Province dispatched a family of twelve. This tragic incident
resulted from a spurious assumption on the part of U.S. intelligence that because an unmanned drone had
observed three of these farmers digging near a road, they must be planting a bomb. These twelve
innocents were part of Salahuddin Governor Ahmad Mahmud Kaissi's extended family. Unwilling to improve
its inept intelligence over the ensuing 30 months, the U.S. on 20 July 2008 dispatched a team of Special
Forces to break and enter at 3:00 AM without warrant a cousin's home and to shoot to death the governor's
17-year-old son and 23-year-old nephew. One day later the military acknowledged it had no indication of
wrong-doing on the part of either son or nephew. How many additional
insurgents, members of the governor's extended family, were created upon the death of these terrorized
relatives? One each? Or ten each? What proportion of the governor's tribe favored a continued U.S.
presence in Iraq? Any at all? On 4 March
2007 a farm house in Kapisa Province containing four generations of one family, a man, five women, and
three children, was wiped off the map of Afghanistan by twin U.S. 2000-pound bombs. How many additional
insurgents were created by the tragic loss of these nine lives? One each? Or ten each? On 16 September
2007 a team of U.S. contracted mercenaries piloting four automatic weapons equipped all-terrain vehicles
through central Baghdad became bogged down in traffic. With helicopter support overhead
these jack-booted but otherwise un-uniformed killers forced their way out by slaughtering seventeen
unarmed Iraqi bystanders and wounding dozens of others, an unprovoked assault by all estimations,
including estimations of the mercenaries' U.S. employers. How many additional insurgents were created by
this grotesque incident? A multitude? A Mahdi army? A crewed charter sailing yacht cruising the
Aegean from Rhodes. Or Kos. A crewed charter sailing yacht to sail the Mediterranean coast of Turkey
from Bodrum. Or Gocek. A crewed charter yacht holiday or
honeymoon of a lifetime. According to Lieutenant General Michael Moseley, U.S. Air Force Deputy Chief
of Staff testifying before a Congressional committee, commanders in Iraq were required to obtain advance
approval from former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for any planned air strike likely to result
in the deaths of more than thirty civilians. Through the summer of 2003 more than fifty such raids were
proposed and all were approved. That was in the first few months of a war over which Rumsfeld
presided into November 2006! This lord of the earth has since been relieved of his duties. That's not
enough. He now needs to be brought before an international war crimes tribunal and charged with
the premeditated murder of tens of thousands of innocent non-combatants. U.S. policy in Afghanistan and the
Middle East, moreover, perceived to be Shoot First and Ask Questions Later and When in Doubt, Take
'em Out, needs drastic restructuring from basic training to Oval Office. On 3 November 2008 U.S. attack
aircraft took out yet another wedding party, this one at Shah Wali Kott in Afghanistan. Again there were more
than 40 dead. On 5 November President Hamid Karzai once more
appealed to the U.S. to end the killing of innocent civilians and to take the war to the enemy. This appeal
was addressed to President-elect Barack Obama because earlier appeals to George W. Bush had fallen on deaf
ears. Have things changed under the new administration? On 5 May 2009 one hundred forty-seven innocent
villagers, by Afghan government count, that is, by the count of our allies, were
murdered in their homes by U.S. air strikes. This despicable incident occurred at Granai in western
Afghanistan's Farah Province following an incursion by up to 400 Taliban militants. No militant is known
to have been caught in this kneejerk aerial assault, only the innocent. How many additional militants
were created by these misguided bombs? One for each of the dead? Or ten for each of the dead? Mr. Obama,
please, we expected an end to these thoughtless murders when we cast our ballots! For the love of God, do
something!! On 20 November 2009 The Times, a Rupert Murdoch newspaper (Fox News), published an item
headlined "Villagers consumed by hate for US say five-year security handover is too long." This item
quoted ordinary non-combatant Afghans, leading off with "People hate the Americans from the bottom of their
hearts." On 26 November 2011 the war on terror was escalated to a higher level of madness. On that day NATO
helicopters and attack aircraft took out two military check-points. Inside Pakistan! 24 Pakistani conscripts
lost their lives, 13 more were wounded. Inside Pakistan! At last U.S. government report 232 individuals have
been killed in 2012 drone strikes alone. Are we supposed to believe there were still 232 legitimate
intelligence-identified targets to be taken out from among innocent non-combatants. With our intelligence!
Come on Mr. Obama, Do something soon! When did the U.S. Congress declare war on Pakistan?!? Is it not
time for the U.S. to recognize that it has not successfully deployed its military since 1945! Does that
not tell us something! The TGE's experienced crew welcomes guests aboard their charter yacht for a sail
among Aegean islands of Greece, the Cyclades, the Dodecanese, the Sporades, or for a cruise along Cleopatra's
route up the Turkish coast to ancient Samos, or for a sail paralleling Alexander's port-closing path down the
coast of Turkey. A crewed yacht available for charter at the crossroads of history. Charter sailing Greece.
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