Category: Drinks
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Travels With a Wine Focus
There are four pillars to our travels: food, wine, land and sea. This article is all about the wine and why it is part of our travel philosophy. As we began to travel more and more, we noticed that each place we visited we would learn, almost by accident, about…
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Kiel: The Sailing City
This morning we sailed down the Kiel Fjord from the Baltic Sea. Kiel is the capital of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein and has a significant maritime ship building industry. Located in what was the former West Germany near Denmark, it was largely destroyed in WWII and rebuilt in a…
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Canals and Jordaan walking food and history tour
A beautiful blue Spring sky greeted us this morning bright and early for an 8am canal boat tour on a wooden boat built in 1928, the jonckvrouw. We boarded with seven others to share a 90 minute early morning cruise through the canals with our guide Jan (fantastic guide and…
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Crete, Greece
I barely know where to start. This is the views as we approached Crete this morning when we woke up. We were picked up by Anna Maria our Sommelier for the day who took us to the Dourakis Winery in the mountains. A family owned vineyard for a tour, tasting…
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Bologna…a day of food
We participated in a small group food tour with Delicious Bologna. We hit all the major dishes and traditions of Bologna starting with a propr espresso and cornett. Next up was watching the traditional tortellini making. Stunning craftsmanship by these ladies. Then into the street markets for a view of…
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Lago di Garda & Valpolicella wine valley
Had a full day private tour with Alessandro which was really quite perfect. First off took us to the castle above Verona for the views. We then drove through the valley to a very small village, San Giorgio di Valpolicella for views over the wine valley. Next up was Torri…
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And onto Verona
Training our way to Verona today on what we now know is Liberation Day (the day Italy was liberated from Nazi occupation). This is a lovely small city. We skipped “town” due to holiday festivities and took a long stroll along the Adige River. We stopped to have lunch at…
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Last day of vacation. Lazy day in Rome…
Strolling then city on a beautiful sunny Fall day. A stop for lunch across the Tibre River in Trastevere. Some bruschetta, fried calamari and some eggplant pasta. And our last meal of Roman delights…
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Sunday in York
Lazy Sunday morning shopping and exploring. And then a little lunch at Pairings… And to cap it off a tour of Hooting Owl Distillery. Sooo much fun learning about and tasting gins.
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Travel chaos
Admittedly it was an ambitious plan: overnight flight from NY to London; Tube to King’s Cross Train Station; train to York. We needed good timing. Not so much. First, flight is cancelled 48 hours before the trip which delayed everything by five hours requiring alterations is the remaining schedule. Ok…done. …
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