In today's travel world, its hard to 'fly the friendly skies.'  Airlines are too busy cutting costs, increasing fees and merging to take care of their customers. The bright fluffy cloud in the friendly skies for me is KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, now celebrating 90 years in the business making them the oldest airline in the [...]
I received several cool wine gifts for Christmas...my favorite is the Adopt A Vine from gift republic. Nicely packaged in a giftable tin, your box contains an explanation of your gift, vine adoption registration instructions, information about English wine, 'Discover more about wine' leaflet, a gift presentation certificate and personalization pen. Your gift then entitles [...]
Over the last 3 1/2 years living in Amsterdam, I've been lucky enough to pick up many different wines on my travels. I'm enjoying may way through them and thought I'd share with you as I go in case you're interested in seeking one out. Tonight I'm enjoying the Boutari Kretikos White 2007 from the [...]
On our October visit to the Deutsche Weinstrasse (German Wine Road in the Pfalz region) we discovered something we never tried before ... Neuer Wein (or New Wine in English). Near the beginning of the Wine Road outside Bad Durkheim, we came across a cute little town, Kallstadt, on Friday late afternoon at Happy Hour [...]
The German Wine Road, Deutsche Weinstrasse as its called in German, is a beautiful slice of Germany a short drive southwest of Frankfurt, dating back 2000 years to the Romans. In the Pfalz region, or Palatinate in English, the Weinstrasse stretches 50 miles south through beautiful vineyards, quaint villages and castle ruins. The Pfalz produces [...]