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perience the special thrill of sailing aboard a fortable villa where Napoleon was exiled for
tall ship. Today, those ships sail in the less than a year in 1814.
Mediterranean, the Aegean and the Caribbean, We also hiked down to a lovely beach popu-
as well as the Suez and Panama Canals and the lar with locals and picked raspberries in a
west coast of Central America. If that weren't plaza overlooking the harbor. That night, we
enough, the company (starclippers.com) also ate in the elegant dining room of the ship for a
offers Atlantic crossings of 28 days from dinner of salmon, one of many tasty dishes we
Cannes, France to Barbados. ate on the voyage.
We boarded the Star Clipper in Civitavec- As we set off that night, crew members
chia, Rome’s cruise port, after a short stay at raised the sails on our ship and we headed
the ideally located Hotel Napoleon near west to Bonifacio, a town of 3,000 on the
Rome’s Piazza Vittorio Emanuele and only a southern coast of Corsica. As we sailed in the
short walk from the Termini train station and next morning, the undercut, chalk-white cliffs
the Coliseum, Palatine Hill and Forum. made it appear that the community was hang-
Our first stop was Porto Ferraio on Elba, ing over the seas.
which is about 10 miles offshore of the Tuscan After an early morning yoga session and
town of Piombino. Because our ship was small, breakfast, we walked along the quay to look at
we were able to snuggle into the port. We chartered catamarans, fishing boats and even
walked off the ship and up into Porto Ferraio, one stunning sailboat that was more than 80
population 12,000, where we found the com- feet long and boasted a beautiful blue hull and
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