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#11 – “When Wine Calls” – The Winter Grape Tour Coming to an End but not before the wonders of Dubai Calling.
Welcome back to When Wine Calls “The Winter Grape Tour”. Our time in the UK and Europe had come to an end but we wanted to take the opportunity on the way home to Australia to have a stopover in Dubai to not only explore this amazing city for the first time but to also…
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#10 – “When Wine Calls” – The Winter Grape Tour – Back to where “The Summer Vintage Tour” ended, where else but Paris Calling with a short stop in Brussels.
Welcome back to When Wine Calls “The Winter Grape Tour”. When we talk to fellow travellers and friends about visiting Paris, we always get a mixed bag of reactions with some saying they did not enjoy it, others saying they have no interest and the remainder, like ourselves loving every minute of their time there…
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#9 – “When. Wine Calls” – The Winter Grape Tour – Wonderful Budapest Calling for New Years Eve
Welcome back to When Wine Calls “The Winter Grape Tour”. It was only a relatively short train journey to Budapest compared to our previous trips across Europe and in no time, we were pulling into Budapest train station in the early afternoon. This gave us time to settle into our apartment (which included an amazing…
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#8 – “When Wine Calls” – The Winter Grape Tour – Turning for Home, Vienna Calling
Welcome back to When Wine Calls “The Winter Grape Tour” as we turn for home after our winter Christmas in Austria. On arriving back in Innsbruck from Seefeld, we had a short transfer onto the neighbouring platform as the Railjet express train pulled in heading for Vienna. Not long after we settled in for the…
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#7 – Part 2 “When Wine Calls” – The Winter Grape Tour – Together for a Magical Christmas in Seefeld in Tyrol, Austria
Welcome back to When Wine Calls “The Winter Grape Tour” and Part 2 of our memorable Christmas week in Seefeld in Tyrol, Austria. We woke on Christmas Day to the most glorious bright blue-sky day. The view from our balcony was simply amazing with the snow covered mountains reflecting the sun in stark contrast. We…
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#7 – Part 1 “When Wine Calls” – The Winter Grape Tour – Together for a Magical Christmas in Seefeld in Tyrol, Austria
Welcome back to When Wine Calls “The Winter Grape Tour”. In earlier blogs I outlined that our travels by train throughout Europe had been uneventful and highly enjoyable. That was all about to change as we arrived at Munich station to catch the train to Austria. When we arrived the station was in chaos with…
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#6 – “When Wine Calls” – The Winter Grape Tour – Munich and the “Christmas Markets”
Welcome back to When Wine Calls “The Winter Grape Tour” of the UK and Europe. The train from Berlin to Munich was fast and uneventful but given that it was Christmas time I was very glad that we had pre-booked the seats as it was very crowded and chaotic. While the service on the train…
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#5 – “When Wine Calls” – The Winter Grape Tour – Revisiting Berlin
Welcome back to When Wine Calls “The Winter Grape Tour” of the UK and Europe. I had not been to Berlin since 1986 while Pauline had never visited Berlin. When I was last here the wall was still in existence, and I remember standing on the west side at Checkpoint Charlie and looking through the…
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#4 – “When Wine Calls” – The Winter Grape Tour – Magical London at Christmas
Welcome back to When Wine Calls “The Winter Grape Tour” of the UK and Europe. We arrived in London a day ahead of our daughter Portia arriving and unlike in the summer when we had booked into a hotel, we selected an apartment in Earls Court which had the advantage of two bedrooms and more…
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#3 -“When Wine Calls” – The Winter Grape Tour – York, West Midlands and Windsor Calling
Welcome back to When Wine Calls “The Winter Grape Tour” of the UK and Europe. York is a cathedral walled city founded by the Romans and home to famous landmarks such as York Minster (one of the world’s most magnificent cathedrals dating back to the 7th century), the Shambles (historic street of medieval buildings dating back…
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# 2 – “When Wine Calls” – The Winter Grape Tour – Lakes District Calling
Welcome back to When Wine Calls, “The Winter Grape Tour” of the UK and Europe. When we arrived at our hotel, Storrs Hall on Lake Windermere, staff, and some of the guests greeted us at the front door and were amazed that we had made it through as they were being advised that the roads…
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# 1 – “When Wine Calls” – The Winter Grape Tour – Yorkshire Calling
Welcome back to When Wine Calls, this time on our “The Winter Grape Tour” of the UK and Europe. We had a considerable number of travel logistics to arrive in the UK flying from Melbourne through Hong Kong onto Frankfurt and then transiting for the flight to Manchester, pick up a hire car and drive…
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“When Wine Calls” – The Winter Grape”, A Christmas Adventure of a Lifetime with the Whole Family!
Prologue Welcome back to “When Wine Calls”. In our recent “Reflections” post summing up the amazing “The Summer Vintage” Adventure I mentioned that we would be on a new adventure shortly called “The Winter Grape”. Many of you who read that post will no doubt be wondering what this trip is all about and why…
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