Tag: 2025 Wine Aficionados Tour
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#11 Sicily Calling Part 2
Welcome back to When Wine Calls – “2025 Wine Afficionados Tour”. Leaving Cefalu we got back onto the highway and continued heading west to the coastal town of Trapani. As we approached the outskirts of Palermo, we encountered heavy traffic emerging onto the highway from the city centre with cars suddenly going in all directions…
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# 10 Sicily Calling Part 1
Welcome back to When Wine Calls – “2025 Wine Afficionados Tour”. Approaching Catania Airport, the towering peak of Mt Etna is striking and unmistakeable commanding your attention in comparison to the surrounding landscape. Seeing it for the first time was exhilarating and we could not wait to land and experience adventuring on its slopes in…
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# 9 Malta Calling
Welcome back to When Wine Calls – “2025 Wine Afficionados Tour”. We had long been interested in travelling to Malta but decided we had to include the island into our itinerary after our neighbours visited there last year. In researching the logistics to get there we discovered there was a direct flight from Dublin to…
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#6 English Countryside Calling – “2025 Wine Afficionados Tour”
Welcome back to When Wine Calls – “2025 Wine Afficionados Tour”. We love travelling into the English Countryside when we visit the UK and in particular staying in a traditional inn with their homely, quaint and warm atmosphere, welcoming staff as well as friendly other guests. It is this feeling of relaxation and the opportunity…
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#4 Iceland Calling, Part 2 – “2025 Wine Afficionados Tour”
Welcome back to When Wine Calls – “2025 Wine Afficionados Tour” and our continuing travels along the Golden Circle of Iceland. After leaving the Fosshotel Glacier Lagoon we drove back along the highway towards the quaint town of Vik. Along the way we stopped off at the breathtaking Lomagnupur Mountain, one of the most recognisable…
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#3 Iceland Calling, Part 1 – “2025 Wine Afficionados Tour”
Welcome back to When Wine Calls – “2025 Wine Afficionados Tour”. We had been wanting to travel to Iceland ever since our adult children had travelled there 18 months ago after joining us in Austria for our White Christmas – read our 2025 The Winter Grape Tour for more detail on that fabulous trip The difference,…
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#2 Milan Calling – “2025 Wine Aficionados Tour”
Welcome back to “When Wine Calls” as we set off on our “2025 Wine Afficionados Tour”. As mentioned in our Prologue this was our first time visiting Milan, so we were quite excited on arriving to spend a few days in this fascinating city. We arrived early morning into Malensa Airport affectionally known as MXP…
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