Tag: The Winter Grape

Welcome back to When Wine Calls “The Winter Grape Tour” of the UK and Europe. We arrived in London a day ahead of our daughter Portia arriving and unlike in the summer when we had booked into a hotel, we selected an apartment in Earls Court which had the advantage of two bedrooms and more…

Welcome back to When Wine Calls “The Winter Grape Tour” of the UK and Europe. York is a cathedral walled city founded by the Romans and home to famous landmarks such as York Minster (one of the world’s most magnificent cathedrals dating back to the 7th century), the Shambles (historic street of medieval buildings dating back…

Welcome back to When Wine Calls, “The Winter Grape Tour” of the UK and Europe. When we arrived at our hotel, Storrs Hall on Lake Windermere, staff, and some of the guests greeted us at the front door and were amazed that we had made it through as they were being advised that the roads…

Welcome back to When Wine Calls, this time on our “The Winter Grape Tour” of the UK and Europe. We had a considerable number of travel logistics to arrive in the UK flying from Melbourne through Hong Kong onto Frankfurt and then transiting for the flight to Manchester, pick up a hire car and drive…

Prologue  Welcome back to “When Wine Calls”. In our recent “Reflections” post summing up the amazing “The Summer Vintage” Adventure I mentioned that we would be on a new adventure shortly called “The Winter Grape”. Many of you who read that post will no doubt be wondering what this trip is all about and why…