*Travel features* with wine touring, restaurants, accommodation.

See selection below with links to each article. Also includes holiday and sightseeing experiences outside of a wine environment (surely not). This fairly long list goes back ten years - there are plenty more to highlight once I get around to it.

 

Coventry & Manchester: bars, beers, restaurants (Sept 2021). The Gourmet Food Kitchen, Dimitri's Taverna and Meze Bar, Atlas Bar, The Marble Arch Inn, Pizza Express.

Chiaramonte Gulfi

Southern Sicily (March 2021): Ragusa and Agrigento.

Roussillon 'French Catalonia, wild wine country' (Oct 2020): my whopping book is full of touring tips other than wine throughout Les Pyrénées Orientales!

Lavail Vigne near Maury (© CIVR).

New York State: Finger Lakes, Seneca & Cayuga (Nov. 2019).

Belgium and Netherlands: Bruges, Gent, Rotherdam, Haarlem: beer & eating. (Sept. 2019).

Bourgogne des Flandres brewery.

Germany: Saale-Unstrut region. (Nov. 2018).

Madeira July 2018:

Henriques & Henriques and D'Oliveiras.

Portuguese wines of the moment and Madeira restaurants.

More Roussillon wine touring, in images (Feb. 2018):

Roussillon photos part 1: Banyuls-sur-mer.

Vineyard in Les Aspres.

Roussillon photos part 2: Les Aspres.

Tokaji region in Hungary & Slovakia including focus on the charming town of Sárospatak (Feb. 2018): Hungary: Tokay, Harslevelu, Furmint, Pinot...

Greece: the Peloponnese (Sept. 2017).

Update on a mammoth Cahors wine touring guide (Sept. 2016):

Cahors: Combel La Serre, Haute-Serre, Mercues...

And French wine tasting & touring e-magazine.

English wine guide. (June 2016)

Spain: Cava guide. (Aug. 2015)

Languedoc special supplement 2015 and Languedoc more photos (July 2015).

Porto, Pinhão and Douro Valley July 2015:

Douro valley: Quinta de la Rosa and Porto & Douro: Quevedo.

And photos (also July 2015):

Pinhao area and Port and railway theme.

Slovenia wine and travel (March 2015).

Languedoc special supplement 2014 (Oct. 2014).

Croatia (May 2014).

Languedoc: Saint Chinian (Jan. 2014).

Chablis special focus report and Chablis on foot (June to Sept. 2013).

Cahors Malbec road trip (Feb. 2013).

Portugal: Algarve & Tavira (Aug. 2012).

Languedoc: Terrasses du Larzac and Saint Guilhem Le Désert (May 2012).

Undiscovered Spain: Castilla y Leon (Nov. 2011).