Wine, seafood, music and a local guide: what more can a person ask for when in the magical city of Venice?! This was our second time in Venice. The first time we were there, we only spent two nights which is not nearly enough time to explore all the nooks and crannies Venice has to offer. This...
We were recently invited to celebrate our friend Jennie’s mom, Terrie’s, birthday in Malibu for a little wine tasting and … wait for it … a SAFARI. If you don’t think there’s any good vineyards and wine to taste in Los Angeles County, just wait until you read...
Ahhhhhh Venice. Other than my wife, dogs, and wine – I think Venice is the other great love of my life. The grandeur and romanticism of it is very overwhelming. The irony of it is that we heard so many negative things about it when we were planning our trip to Italy that we...
So after 10 months of sitting on photos and trying to make the time to write this, I am FINALLY going to write about our wine tasting tour in Tuscany. While it was only a day long and it seems like it should be easy to blog, I really wanted to do this justice. I also knew it was going to make me terribly nostalgic and wishing I was still in Italy. Ohhhhhh the aching pain to be back there!
I suppose I love it because it takes me back to that moment 5 years ago. I remember explicitly sitting on the stone steps of the Kunjapuri Devi temple at the top of a foothill at the base of the Himalayas in Rishikesh. It was a four mile hike up the mountain side, and I was resting before I climbed what seemed like a never ending stairway to the worship site.
I really wanted to make this experience as true as possible. After many hours of research online and bombarding my friends with questions, I came up with an evening for Terri and I to attempt to transport us to Italia; A land so rich in history, food and art how could anyone not want to be there?!
Would you believe I spent three weeks in Jamaica, and I don’t have a single photo of any of it? That’s pretty bad. I literally have ZERO photos of other places such as Quebec, British Columbia, Puerto Rico, Australia, and Spain. I have MAYBE 2-3 photos (maximum) of London even though I’ve been there four times and only one photo of my week in Taiwan. WTH was wrong with me? LOL Thank goodness I took boat loads of pictures in India.
So last night I hosted myself a french inspired evening while Terri was away working. I thought it would not only give me something to do but also let me watch a french movie I had been wanting to see. I also wanted to do a test run on a french dish I’ve been looking to cook but have been scared to death to try.
