Wine and Food Travel

Sangria has to be one of my favorite summer drinks.  I think it’s because  it is as unsophisticated, unpretentious as an ice cold beer and yet as elegant as afternoon tea .  The humble ingredients, the simplicity in its making and casual, “laissez-faire” style of serving gives many of us permission to serve it without having to worry about the correct “wine etiquette”...

Day two began with the ringing of the breakfast bell at 7 am sharp.  After a robust breakfast of French toast, bacon, fresh fruit and fried potatoes, we prepared to set sail.  The exhilaration of raising the main sail was short-lived as we soon realized that there was a tear in the sail.  So down it came and we continued on our journey using the two smaller sails. Our port on this day was Lopez...

When you embark on a safari holiday, you can expect to see huge concentrations of wild animals and vast expanses of African wilderness, but one of the most incredible experiences available to you is meeting a real African tribe and getting an insight into their culture.  On a Kenya safari this can be arranged, offering you the most unique and fascinating cultural trip you’ll ever take. There are...

Zurich is beautiful, vibrant, safe, expensive! Clean and welcoming. Other than the high cost of living there is pretty much nothing to dislike. In fact, the only thing that could possibly put anyone off coming to visit Zurich is this peculiar notion that the city is extremely boring, a collection of stuffy bankers, people that rhythm with said bankers and chocolate shops. Incidentally, this prosaic...

I was so excited about my sailing trip on the Schooner Zodiac that I could hardly sleep the night before we set sail. The Zodiac is a 160 ft.  windjammer built in 1924 for the Johnson family (of Johnson & Johnson).  It is a two-masted gaff topsail Schooner with 7,000 square feet of sail area.  The main sail itself is 4,000 square feet. During the Depression the schooner was sold to the San Francisco...