Author: bplee23
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#10 – Italy Keeps Calling “Ciao from Rome”
Welcome back to “When Wine Calls” as we travel historical, romantic and enchanting Italy. Following out train trip from Bologna (about 2 ½ hours) we arrived at Roma Termini on our next leg of our adventure. As expected, the terminal was chaotic as we made our way to the taxi rank where we stood in…
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#9 – Italy Calling “Ciao” from Bologna
Welcome back to “When Wine Calls” from romantic Italy. Our first stop in Italy was Bologna. It our first visit to this city which is one of the largest university towns in Italy and so full of history. In comparison to where we have been to date on this trip the weather when we exited…
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#8 “When Wine Calls” Arrives in Europe-Amsterdam Calling
Welcome again to “When Wine Calls”. We have now arrived in Europe with our first stop on this leg of our “When Wine Calls” adventure being Amsterdam. We were last in Amsterdam around 8 years ago when we brought our daughter over to London for a football camp and took the opportunity to fly to…
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#7 – Our Time in London and Scotland Comes to an End – Europe Calling
Welcome back to “When Wine Calls”. We hope you are enjoying reading about our adventures. Sadly, the time had come for us to leave the Isle of Skye and we made a dash back through the Highlands over to the East Coast passing through Inveraray where they will be holding Highland Games there in mid…
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#6 – Isle of Skye Calling- we made it back!
Welcome back to “When Wine Calls”. In my last post I mentioned that our next stop on this adventure would be back to the Isle of Skye to rewrite history from our previous sojourn. Well, we successfully made it back and it seems so different to that time on our honeymoon over 34 years ago.…
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#5 – Scottish Highlands Calling
Welcome again to “When Wine Calls” – I trust you enjoyed reading about our Edinburgh adventure. We were so excited to pick up the hire car and head off on our road trip through the Scottish Highlands. We were upgraded to a VW Golf for the journey but ran into some issues straight away with…
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#4 – Edinburgh Calling
Welcome back again to “When Wine Calls”. This time we have planned a more leisurely driving holiday concentrating on the northwest coast with longer stays in unique villages as well as on the Isle of Skye where we hope to undo some demons from this earlier trip (more on this story in a later blog).…
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#3 – London Calling
Welcome back to “When Wine Calls”. Our first flight leg of the trip allowed us to enjoy French champagne, wonderful chardonnay and our favourite dessert wine, all being on the menu as we winged our way over to Doha. The hostesses were tremendous, so friendly and helpful and the food wow!!! and so unexpected that…
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#2 “On our Way”!
Welcome back to “When Wine Calls”. We hope you have enjoyed reading about the lead-up to our adventure. Finally, the day has come as we load up all our luggage to head off to the airport. It is still hard to imagine this day has arrived – I am sure reality will set in when…
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“When Wine Calls”- Planning & Packing
#1 – Planning and Packing Welcome back to “When Wine Calls”. When we first started planning this trip, we were unsure how long we would be travelling. In many respects the trip has been governed by the ability to get airline tickets in and out of Australia. What started out at around 65 days ended…
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