Category: The Winter Grape

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…