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Yacht Week to return with dazzling destinations in 2024

• 25 September 2023
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The iconic floating festival, Yacht Week, has announced its dazzling destinations for 2024, each guaranteeing an unforgettable adventure for hundreds of like-minded travellers. Over a sublime seven days of sailing, exploring, and dancing, Yacht Week will bring back the former sell-out Sardinia route, as well as introduce Latin, hip hop and Afrobeats weeks, as choices on its popular Greece or Croatia routes. 2024 also sees the welcome return of the party-starting Croatia Ultra Festival route and for techno aficionados, the Drumcode takeover. Bookings for all Yacht Week destinations (May – Aug 2024) open on 28th September 2023. Sign up now via www.theyachtweek.com . Prices start from just £562 / €641 / $699 / CA$944 / A$1082 per person.

Following a sold-out summer in 2023 – and now entering its 18th year – Yacht Week is the original festival of the seas. It’s a special, shared experience for both single travellers and groups of friends. Unplug and relax, or party like there’s no tomorrow, with natural bay swims, hikes, seaside yoga, quad biking, dockside discos, ancient fort raves, regatta racing, and so much more. Yacht Week is recognised as the trip of a lifetime for a community of travellers, each setting out to explore paradise in their own premium yacht with a skipper and host.

Each year Yacht Week adds a new route to its offering and for 2024, it brings back Sardinia and the crystal blue Emerald Coast. For two weeks in June, this route sees luxury meet wild terrain as the flotilla moors in beautiful archipelagos and enjoys wellness activities, renowned beach clubs such as ‘Rituals’, stylish parties in stunning locations such as La Maddelena Dock and the exquisite Cone Club, and a sumptuous mix of local cuisine in contemporary restaurants. Watch Yacht Week’s Sardinia video here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxDzRlcNv5e

Also new for 2024, Yacht Week delivers two themed weeks on the Greece route. Applebum (Jun 8-14) will serve up a week of carefully curated hip hop, while Vibras (June 13-19) will bring the sultry sounds of Latin music to Yacht Week from reggaeton to Brazilian funk, and Latin pop to Latin house. These Yacht Week parties will be filled with the perfect soundtrack for sunkissed beaches and sizzling nights.

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The Croatia route will see an intrepid crowd dive headfirst into a carefully curated week of incredible experiences with a flotilla of new friends from around the world. Every night there are parties in amazing locations from clubs to deserted islands, to parties at sea with DJs performing on the ‘Buzz Boat’ – a floating DJ booth alongside the world’s first floating dancefloor. During the day is sailing, swimming, and snorkelling in crystal blue waters; exploring, hiking, and shopping; kicking back at the coolest beach clubs; enjoying the best food and drink on offer, and much more.

Music is always a central part of the Yacht Week experience and 2024 is no different. For fans of Afrobeats and dancehall, Yacht Week caters with its own in-house brand, Rhythm & Waves (June 22 – 28). While those with true party stamina can take on the Croatia Ultra Festival route (July 6-12) letting Yacht Week guests attend one of the world’s best house and techno festivals as VIPs. This week puts the ‘rave’ into travel and there is no better way to arrive than by yacht!

Yacht Week 2024 also collaborates with cutting-edge techno label, Drumcode for a third year. This hugely popular week (June 1-7) continues to redefine what a music festival can be as some of the world’s preeminent techno artists, including Drumcode founder Adam Beyer, join the flotilla in an intimate and unforgettable journey. Parties take place in captivating locations such as a lighthouse, a deserted island, a submarine shelter, a historic fortress, and more.

Yacht Week is more than just a holiday. It’s true guests are left with a stunning Insta feed, but the knowledgeable crew members know exactly where to go and what to do to help create memories that last.

For more info, early bird pricing, and early access to the best yachts, adventurers can head to www.theyachtweek.com .

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Why Jose Mourinho joined Fenerbahce – culture, politics and few alternatives

It is not until we are 80 minutes into an entertaining, absorbing but inexorably long press conference that Jose Mourinho’s motivations for joining Fenerbahce start to become clear.

Obviously, some of those reasons go unsaid, like money, but you imagine if hard cash was the main factor he would be in Saudi Arabia’s Pro League or MLS .

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There is the undeniable fact that the things that made Mourinho a truly great manager 10 to 15 years ago are less applicable in 2024 — ie, his tactical approach and his way of handling man-management and the media. He is a one-man circus and some clubs will not touch him anymore.

The 61-year-old is still unquestionably a massive draw, though, as the stunning scenes at Fenerbahce’s stadium on Sunday night proved.

So, why them in particular? “That culture (of Fenerbahce) makes it fun,” Mourinho said. “It’s for the president, the directors, the board to be stable and to be balanced, but not the fans. They have to be crazy.

“They have to be demanding, to put pressure on us. That passion is part of my motivation.”

You do feel that to be true. Mourinho talks of wanting to run to the fans when celebrating last-minute winners, of wearing the Fenerbahce shirt as his skin, of the club he only joined on Saturday already being his family.

Since living in a hotel for two and a half years while managing Manchester United , then in London (the city the former two-time Chelsea manager still calls home) during a global pandemic, Mourinho has chosen the bright lights and fun times of Rome and now Istanbul as his places of residence.

Istanbul is similar to the Italian capital in that its football fans are, in the nicest possible way, absolutely out of their trees. It is also a beautiful, historic city rich in culture, the weather is beautiful and no one is bald . What a place.

Their volcanic passion, when times are good, will inspire Mourinho and vice versa.

We had a flavour of that on Sunday during his unveiling at Fenerbahce’s stadium, when he took 30,000 rabid people and nonchalantly placed them in the palms of his hand. He shushed them, he led them in song, he roused them. They gave up their Sunday evenings to watch him wave a bit, sign a piece of paper and say 134 words.

Joining Mourinho mania in Istanbul - flares, hugs, boos, dreams and thousands of Fenerbahce fans

If that is the level, what else will they do for him? Follow him into battle? Storm the presidential palace?

And what will he do for them? If Graeme Souness once planted a Galatasaray flag in Fenerbahce’s centre circle, what is Mourinho capable of? Will he flash his bare backside at Galatasaray’s ultras? The possibilities for carnage feel limitless.

In football terms, for all Mourinho’s talk on Monday of wanting to improve the Turkish league and raise its profile, Fenerbahce are a step down from his previous jobs. They have never reached a European final and Turkish football is ninth in the UEFA coefficient list, sandwiched between Belgium and the Czech Republic (Bruges and Prague are ace, Jose).

Does it even matter? He has got enough money to go and live in space, so who are we to judge where he spends the next part of his life?

It is thought that, for all the hefty weight Mourinho’s name still carries and his initial success in his previous gig at Roma, winning the inaugural Europa Conference League in 2022 and reaching last year’s Europa League final, the phone had not been red hot with management offers.

Mourinho has stated publicly that he regrets not taking the Portugal job when Fernando Santos left it after the 2022 World Cup, but in terms of top-tier European clubs — and there are many who have needed or do still need a new manager this summer, including Bayern Munich and Chelsea — he has not been seriously courted, despite what is believed to be hopeful suggestions to the contrary from his agent Jorge Mendes.

The Athletic understands that Fenerbahce first reached out to Mourinho in March and, while he expressed an interest, it was not until recent weeks that he started to take the prospect seriously.

From Mourinho’s point of view, and depending on where he sees the autumn of his managerial career heading, there is the opportunity to dip down to Turkey for a year or two, win the title, maybe have a fun run in Europe and then get out, reputation slightly enhanced after things ended so badly in Rome.

Fenerbahce have not won the league for 10 years — their longest barren run in the history of the Super Lig — but finished second with an improbable total of 99 points last season. And champions Galatasaray have an ageing team  A number of their key players from last season are the wrong side of 30, such as goalkeeper Fernando Muslera (aged 38) or the league’s top scorer Mauro Icardi (31), while Dries Mertens may have registered a league-high 19 assists last season but he is 37. They will need a reset soon.

“It’s a very clever choice for him,” a source close to Mourinho, speaking on condition of anonymity to protect relationships, told The Athletic . “In a place like this, he can be loved as he wants.”

Mourinho, then, made a play for Fenerbahce, but they enticed him too.

Which party did that was the primary question on the lips of many of the 120 journalists at his introductory press conference, with the opening exchanges dominated by the political wranglings of an upcoming club presidential election.

In summary, former president Aziz Yildirim (from 1998 to 2018) is bidding to be re-elected this month. He proposed some time ago that if he won the election, he would hire Mourinho. Incumbent Ali Koc, though, got there first, finalising the deal before the election, and Mourinho gushed over the president during his press conference.

Mourinho denied a suggestion that he checked with Yildirim before taking the job — “nobody tells me what to do or gives me permission”. He stated, importantly, that he will work under whoever is elected, and he insisted the first presidential candidate to contact him was Koc. That was after a call from sporting director Mario Branco who, like Roma’s then sporting director Tiago Pinto, is Portuguese.

It was a textbook Mourinho press conference, complete with jokes, barbs and getting a few excuses in early for the new season.

The jokes: he drew laughs, each time with a trademark knowing smirk, for moaning about the length of the questions being asked, “I can’t help but notice how long they are… shorter questions mean we have more questions and answers”, the length of the media session itself, “after 20 years of football, this is the longest press conference of my life”, and the length of the document Branco prepared on the club’s vision, “it was so big it had to be air-dropped in”. To be honest, what came across was that Mourinho wants more free time not a new job.

There were barbs at Galatasaray, by virtue of the fact he did not once say their name, even when talking about last season’s champions, while he had a pop at former clubs Roma and possibly Tottenham Hotspur too, with a speech about how clubs who only aim for fifth have no ambition, but Fenerbahce represent ambition, he said, because they have to win every game to win the title. Yep, not sure about that one.

It is worth repeating in full.

“What is ambition? My house is in London. To have a London club, to fight to be sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, make a miracle and qualify for the Europa League? Is that ambition?

“I love Italy. To have a team where you have to make a miracle to win a European competition and you stay fifth, sixth, seventh, is that ambition?

“To be in Portugal, to be at home, visit my mum every day, is that ambition?

“Ambition is to play to win, to feel the pressure you have to win every match to be champion. This is the reality of Fenerbahce.

“It means I’m not in my comfort zone. The project had an impact on me… now it’s my time to have an impact on the project.”

Vintage Jose.

The early excuses were centred around not one, not two, but three unprompted mentions about how qualifying for the Champions League proper via the upcoming qualifiers will be difficult because he has eight players at the European Championship this summer, and their first tie begins just over a week after the tournament’s final.

“I’m going to say something maybe I shouldn’t say… but I wish our players go out early in the Euros and they come home to rest and to train,” he added.

Not as many laughs in the room for that one, probably because half of those eight play for Turkey.

He even dropped in a preemptive, Inception-style line about how the league’s smaller teams do not take enough points off Galatasaray and Fenerbahce. This was a double-edged pre-empt as to why he may not reach Fenerbahce’s record of 99 points and 99 goals from last season.

“I don’t think (99 points, and 103 for Galatasaray) is good, that gap (to third-place Trabzonspor, who finished on 67 points) is not good. Hopefully next season we have a better league with more balance,” he said.

“I want the league to be stronger — if I could have less than 99 points and win the title, that’s what I want.”

A manager saying he wants to win the league with fewer points, we have heard it all now.

There was fawning, too, with one reporter saying it was an honour for her to ask a question of Mourinho having followed his career since childhood. But hey, no wonder they are giddy; this is one of the biggest things to happen to Fenerbahce, or Turkish football, for many years.

We can be snide about Mourinho’s career trajectory and lament how Europe’s once-premier coach is trying to relive his former glories on a smaller stage.

Or we can wish good luck to a man who has not taken the Saudi money, who has not retired to a super-yacht in the Mediterranean and who is addicted not just to winning, but to the same raw, football-loving/hating emotions that burn within fans the world over. We can all relate to that.

“I don’t like sabbatical years or holidays,” Mourinho said. “I hope we score goals in the last minute and I run to the crowd, many times. I can still run, eh?”

A corner of Istanbul just became essential viewing.

(Top photo: Oguz Yeter/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Tim Spiers is a football journalist for The Athletic, based in London. He joined in 2019 having previously worked at the Express & Star in Wolverhampton. Follow Tim on Twitter @ TimSpiers

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Fires set off by Hezbollah rockets spread through northern Israel

Large swaths of northern Israel were engulfed by wild fires set off by rockets launched from Lebanon by the militant group Hezbollah, with rescue teams battling on Monday to get them under control.