Author: bplee23
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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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#23 – “When Wine Calls” – Reflections on “The Summer Vintage” Adventure!
Welcome back to “When Wine Calls” as we attempt to reflect over the past three months of “The Summer Vintage” adventure. Throughout the trip and when we returned home the most common question we were asked was “so what was has been the highlight of the trip” and our answer has always been “there were…
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#22 – “France now Calling” – we finish our adventure in the Champagne capital of the World!
Welcome back to “When Wine Calls” as we finish our 3-month adventure appropriately in the Champagne capital of the world. Driving up the motorway towards Paris it was with very mixed emotions. We were very excited to be travelling to the Champagne region and catch up with our friends that were also travelling there so…
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#21 – “France now Calling” – to the villages of Burgundy!
Welcome back to “When Wine Calls” as we drive through the magnificent French countryside on route to Burgundy. Driving through France the first observation you get is that the scenery is so different from that in Italy. Apart from the Alps the land is so flat with country roads that are so straight and head…
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#20 – “France now Calling” – First Stop Annecy!
Welcome back to “When Wine Calls” as we commence the final leg of our adventure travelling through the spectacular countryside of France. When we were planning this trip, we looked at several alternatives to get from Northern Italy to Annecy in France including via train and car but none of the options were viable, in…
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