France terroir still there in wine tasting
I first tasted the Mourgues du Gres red wine right after a walk through the garrigue around the vineyards. To me it looked like weeds and I was glad I was wearing...
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Taste the south of France with me
World Wines in Mentor has managed to locate some of the wonderful wines I drank during my visit to the South of France this summer and will be pouring them from 6...
Two-Michelin stars for lunch at Le Castellas
Our table at Le Castellas awaits, but one of us got there first and left his water bottle. That’s me, third from the right, with members of our press group visiting the...
Shop Narbonne Market for tastes of the south of France
The Marche covered market in Narbonne is open from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. seven days a week. When I stepped into the covered market in Narbonne, in the south of France,...
Fontfroide Abbaye- dine where monks prayed
In the foothills of the Corbières mountains of the Aude department in the South of France is the Abbaye Fontfroide, which was founded by Benedictine monks in 1093 but is now restored...
That giant 538 passenger airplane
I first realized that there are many aircraft fans after I wrote about traveling aboard the Airbus 380 from Washington Dulles Airport to Paris in May. The huge double level airship...
Connections: France, Quebec, Highland Heights
For more than 300 years St. Anne de Beaupre in Quebec City has been a place where healing miracles occurred. One of the reasons I am so enamored of travel is...
Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, oh my!
I’ve been asked to make recommendations for Must Dos in all three cities. Toronto is easy because I was just there (CN Tower, Toronto Islands, Hockey Hall of Fame) but the others...
South of France coming Sunday
Lounging with a newspaper is a Sunday morning pasttime in the south of France, where this was shot at the Domaine des Clos. 8n Discovering why wine tastes how it does in...
Toronto’s CN Tower Edgewalk
Despite my best intentions to challenge my fears, I didn’t complete the Edgewalk around the top of Toronto’ s CN Tower. I am still trying to determine what made me chicken out at...
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