Category: The Summer Vintage
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#12b – “Puglia Road Trip Calling” Part 3 – One last stop before we say goodbye to Puglia!
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…
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#12a – “Puglia Road Trip Calling” Part 2 – it Just Keeps Getting Better!
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…
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#12 – “Puglia Road Trip Calling” – What a Welcoming Part of the World!
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…
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#11 – “Puglia Calling” – we made it finally!
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…
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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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