Tropical Sails Corp

Skirt Florida’s innumerable Keys and unlock adventure in limestone caverns and coral walls off Cayman Brac. Capuchins cling to the treetops in the jungles of Cozumel, gateway to kaleidoscopic coral reefs, before venturing into the fathomless jade cenotes of Costa Maya and the charming colonial towns and mysterious Mayan pyramids of Merida.

Pivot from Miami’s potent playground to the peach-sand beaches and beautiful shallow reefs of Bermuda – inspiration, some say, for Shakespeare’s The Tempest. More Mid-Atlantic mystique unfolds in the rugged and remote Azores, a lunar-like island cluster of crater lakes and black sand beaches, its volcanic peaks and verdant hillsides cloaked in cloud forest. Lisbon beckons us gently back to earth, its colour and culinary joie de vivre a stepping-stone to the Costa Calida, Valencia and having-a-ball Barcelona.

Follow Istanbulites from their seductive city on the shores of the Bosporus to Bozcaada, a little-known and hyper-cool Aegean-island retreat of vineyards, colourful cafes on cobblestone streets and sandy beaches. Ancient history, glamour and golden sands intermix on Turkey’s captivating Turquoise Coast before we circle a smattering of islands in the Cyclades and Dodecanese, Greek island idylls with clear waters and forested hillsides peppered with ruins and relics, laying a tantalising trail towards Athens.

Between the Pantheon’s quiet beauty and ghostly Pompeii, the power and seduction of Ancient Rome slips into our senses. From Sorrento we Med-island hop to Sicily’s Palermo, all faded glamour, fine churches, culinary riches and catacombs, and Sardinia, land of giants and stone fortresses with stunning wild shores and epic stretches of fine white sand. We close with Spanish charm in the Balearics and Barcelona.