As I sit here watching snowflakes fall, a rarity in the California wine country where we are based, our Southern Hemisphere brethren are only weeks away from harvesting this year’s liquid gold. While a few of their wines are known outside their native regions, many more have not yet garnered the attention they deserve. Australian wines, little known 15 years ago, are now readily available in...
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Cape Winelands Tours offers exceptional trips to the beautiful and yet virtually undiscovered wine lands of South Africa. All the trips focus on fantastic wines and the food that accompanies them (see their recipe for Malva Pudding). Cape Winelands Tours introduces the traveler to this region known for its natural beauty and difficult past by focusing on its international future.
Lisa Hough, pres...
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Australia’s Biggest Folk Festival Takes Place in an Autumnal Garden City
If autumn is too short for you and you’d like to chase after it into the Southern Hemisphere to enjoy it a very compatible place, it would be hard to go wrong with the National Folk Festival in Canberra, Australia, March 28 through April 1.
The festival will be one of the crowning events of a nationwide cele...
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23 Varied Museums Give You an Excuse to Enjoy Cape Town’s Fabled Geography
From the first sighting at sea of its marvelous table-shaped mountain by a European sailor in 1486, and its subsequent establishment as a way station in 1652 by the Dutch East India Company, Cape Town has been South Africa’s liveliest, most beautiful, most colorful city. Even during the dark years ...
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The Art of Travel
Written By Patrick Totty Posted on History
Why people are allowing themselves to rediscover the art of travel
A couple traveling from Nikko, just north of Tokyo, in rural Japan decide on a spur of the moment to fly to Okinawa (to check out the island’s fabled coral reefs and Ryukyu Kingdom ruins. Their options are to depart through Tokyo’s Narita Airport, which offers the cheapest fares, or take Japan’s on-time bullet train further south to Osaka to depart from Kansai International Airport.
Why spend the little bit extra in time and money to depart from Kansai? Because the couple knows that when Kansai opened in 1994 after seven years of construction, it was located atop the largest island ever built by man (until surpassed by Hong...
Sometimes the news that a revolution has been won comes in some small datum rather than in a loud announcement. A recent article on TWcrossroads.com an online news provider that serves the travel industry, said that consumers spent $19.4 billion last year on U.S. Internet travel sites.
If autumn is too short for you and you’d like to chase after it into the Southern Hemisphere to enjoy it a very compatible place, it would be hard to go wrong with the National Folk Festival in Canberra, Australia, March 28 through April 1.The festival will be one of the crowning events of a nationwide celebration called “Year of the Outback,” a 12-month string of performances, car rallies, rodeos, balls and fairs honoring Australia’s...
As I sit here watching snowflakes fall, a rarity in the California wine country where we are based, our Southern Hemisphere brethren are only weeks away from harvesting this year’s liquid gold. While a few of their wines are known outside their native regions, many more have not yet garnered the attention they deserve. Australian wines, little known 15 years ago, are now readily available in the...
Cape Winelands Tours offers exceptional trips to the beautiful and yet virtually undiscovered wine lands of South Africa. All the trips focus on fantastic wines and the food that accompanies them (see their recipe for Malva Pudding). Cape Winelands Tours introduces the traveler to this region known for its natural beauty and difficult past by focusing on its international future. ...
Combine world class wines – the result of special grapes, excellent growing conditions (alluvial and volcanic soils, intense sun and cool breezes), increasingly sophisticated technology and the influence of vintners from California and France – along with snow-capped mountains, traditional culture, and distinctive regional cuisines – and you have the makings of a memorable wine experience at...
South Africa is widely known as a safari destination where travelers seeking an exotic experience go to view wild animals in the bush. It is known to a lesser degree for the dramatic beauty of its land, rugged mountains and verdant valleys, and beautiful beaches, shining white under a brilliant sun. Home to a diverse mix of...
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Australia’s Biggest Folk Festival Takes Place in an Autumnal Garden City
If autumn is too short for you and you’d like to chase after it into the Southern Hemisphere to enjoy it a very compatible place, it would be hard to go wrong with the National Folk Festival in Canberra, Australia, March 28 through April 1.
The festival will be one of the crowning events of a nationwide cele...
The Art of Travel
As I sit here watching snowflakes fall, a rarity in the California wine country where we are based, our Southern Hemisphere brethren are only weeks away from harvesting this year’s liquid gold. While a few of their wines are known outside their native regions, many more have not yet garnered the attention they deserve. Australian wines, little known 15 years ago, are now readily available in the...
Cape Winelands Tours offers exceptional trips to the beautiful and yet virtually undiscovered wine lands of South Africa. All the trips focus on fantastic wines and the food that accompanies them (see their recipe for Malva Pudding). Cape Winelands Tours introduces the traveler to this region known for its natural beauty and difficult past by focusing on its international future.
Combine world class wines – the result of special grapes, excellent growing conditions (alluvial and volcanic soils, intense sun and cool breezes), increasingly sophisticated technology and the influence of vintners from California and France – along with snow-capped mountains, traditional culture, and distinctive regional cuisines – and you have the makings of a memorable wine experience at...