Author: bplee23
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#3 Iceland Calling, Part 1 – “2025 Wine Afficionados Tour”
Welcome back to When Wine Calls – “2025 Wine Afficionados Tour”. We had been wanting to travel to Iceland ever since our adult children had travelled there 18 months ago after joining us in Austria for our White Christmas – read our 2025 The Winter Grape Tour for more detail on that fabulous trip The difference,…
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#2 Milan Calling – “2025 Wine Aficionados Tour”
Welcome back to “When Wine Calls” as we set off on our “2025 Wine Afficionados Tour”. As mentioned in our Prologue this was our first time visiting Milan, so we were quite excited on arriving to spend a few days in this fascinating city. We arrived early morning into Malensa Airport affectionally known as MXP…
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When Wine Calls “2025 Wine Afficionados Tour”
#1 Prologue Welcome back to “When Wine Calls”. Those of you who have followed our blogs in recent years will recall our fantastic When Wine Calls “The Summer Vintage Tour” in 2023. What a memorable trip it was. Later that year we headed back to Europe on “The Winter Grape Tour” for a memorable “White…
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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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