Posted by Amy Neyer, CSW, WSET Advanced Certified Charlie Brown: Holidays always depress me. Sally Brown: I know what you mean. I went down to buy a turkey tree and all they have are things for Christmas. Charlie Brown: For Christmas? Already? Sally and Charlie are right, of course. Thanksgiving gets increasingly squeezed between the bookends…
Month: November 2013
Londolozi Lollapalooza
Today was the final day of my amazing holiday in South Africa with Lee and Sue Flischel. I left Londolozi, the magical game reserve property in the Sabi Sands area of Kruger National Park, quite reluctantly. Truly, this is one of the most magnificent places I have ever visited. I’ve shared a small sampling of…
Cape Winelands Sampler: Stellenbosch, Franschoek and Paarl
It’s a remarkably short drive from Cape Town to the key production areas of the “Cape Winelands,” a term used fondly to encompass the eleven compact regions where wine is grown on “farms” (not vineyards). To give this a U.S. perspective, it takes much less time to get from Cape Town to Paarl or Stellenbosch,…