Posts with the tag ‘wine’


An Autumn Day Between Summer and Winter

November 11, 2012

Without a doubt, the towns of Sommerhausen and Winterhausen are adorable year round, composed as they are of centuries-old buildings and cobblestone streets and nestled in a valley below mountainsides draped in grapevines. In English, these twin towns mean Summer house and Winter house. It was autumn when I visited. In  my house, that’s the best season of all. Sommerhausen and Winterhausen are two of a string of similarly attractive villages lining the Main River in Germany’s Franconia region, making a wine trail of sorts that is popular with Germans but generally unknown outside of the country. There is no Sommerhausen/Winterhausen Facebook page, no Foursquare… Read More…


Throttle to Bottle – Some Runway at Chilean Vineyard

March 7, 2012

Spend too much time at the big airports as I do, and its easy to slip into believing that behemoth centers of people-moving is what flying is all about. It’s not. On a beautiful, sunny summer day here in the southern hemisphere, I was reminded how wonderful it is to power down by visiting two small airfields in Chile where flying remains true to the poetic narratives of Antoine Saint Exupery, Richard Bach, Ernest K. Gann and others. Today, I spent the afternoon at the Club de Planeadores de Vitacura in Santiago, Chile – an 82 year old club for sailplane flying. While a steady… Read More…


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