Adriatic Sea Quotes

My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.

Albania is located sixty miles across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. It borders Montenegro and Kosovo to the north, Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south. If you know nothing about 'the Land of the Eagles,' relax. You're not alone.

The ancient boundary of Italy on the north was not the Alps but the Apennines.

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

Croatia is an amazing place.

Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.

In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul.

Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

I'm an avid sailor, and my first time exploring the Dalmatian Coast and the Croatian islands was very special.

It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.

France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So, what we witnessed in Kosovo was an extraordinary war, a war waged solely with bombs from the air.