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Welcome back to “When Wine Calls” as we continue our travels through Northern Italy. When we were initially planning this adventure, we had not factored in a trip to the Dolomites. However, after meeting a couple who were staying in one of our favourite wineries in Tasmania while we were there and had recently travelled…

Welcome back to “When Wine Calls” as we tour the intriguing city of Verona. It was only a few hours train trip from Venice to Verona so what could go wrong. It started with us unable to find the carriage or seat numbers on our on-line tickets. They had to be on the paperwork somewhere…

Welcome back to “When Wine Calls” this time we are back in Northern Italy in the romantic city of Venice. Arriving in Venice proved to be more difficult than we had envisaged. The plan was that we would arrive on the ferry from Rovinj into the main port area and then catch a local Vaporetto…

Welcome back to “When Wine Calls” as we end our travels through Croatia at the picturesque town of Rovinj. Rovinj was always going to be a highly emotional stop for us on our trip as Pauline’s father Geoff tragically and suddenly passed away here 6 years ago. Pauline and I travelled over from Australia at…

Dobar dan and welcome back to “When Wine Calls” from on board MV Bellissima. Our first full day on board was busy as we set sail for the Elaphiti Islands with the first item on the itinerary being, what else, but an onboard wine tasting presented by the very knowledgeable, multi talented Head Steward “Mate”…

Dobar dan and welcome back to “When Wine Calls” this time from fabulous Croatia. During the 3-hour car ride down from Split we were not far out of Dubrovnik when we received an E Mail from our hotel advising us that due to “unforeseen circumstances” our booking had been cancelled. We immediately thought that our…

Buongiorno! and welcome again to “When Wine Calls” as we head into the final days of our road trip through Puglia. In the last blog I mentioned that after leaving Masseria il Frantoio we were heading to our next stop with a high degree of anticipation. But on the way we wanted to call into…

Buongiorno! and welcome back again to “When Wine Calls” as we continue our road trip through Puglia. A few hours drive north from Fillippo de Raho Agri Relais along the usual narrow country roads is a town called Ceglie Messapica perched high on a hill in the Istrian Valley – the valley known as the…

Welcome back to “When Wine Calls” from Puglia. Buongiorno! In our blog on the Scottish Highlands, I outlined the fun we had when we picked up the hire car in Edinburgh and driving on “Single Track Roads”. As you are all aware now, we managed to survive that journey after we worked out how to…

Welcome back to “When Wine Calls” as we continue our travels through Italy. After just over 4 hours on the train from Rome we finally arrived at Bare Centrale, the gateway to the Puglia region of Italy located on the south-east coast and often called the Heel of Italy. We had wanted to travel to…