Catalonia Wine Trip 🇪🇸
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life July, 2023 Long anticipated reunion After having finished the last block session of the Wine Academy Austria in Florence in April 2022 where we shared an apartment, we then promised to stay in contact in the future. Also we introduced a “wine fund” to whom we all […]
WSET Diploma Block Session 3 🇮🇹
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life April, 2022 Session in Florence and wine day trips The last block session is being regarded as the icing on the cake for this program because it features great excursions even though classes in a hotel in central Florence remain nourishing. However it felt like being a […]
WSET Diploma Block Session 2 🇦🇹
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life November, 2021 After the summer and our first exam in the Spring it was time for the next block session. It was again an intense week of studies and tasting training, 3 exams for those who wanted to take all three of them, and luckily a few […]
WSET Diploma Block Session 1 🇦🇹
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life May, 2021 We were just coming out of the second corona measures when the seminar started. And the Austrians were still in partial lock-down but the seminar luckily was able to start. Our class of 20 is a cool international mixture of everything, notably female dominated and […]
San Diego 🇺🇸
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life January 21th, 2022 Like in another post one could say why San Diego again! Well there is never enough SD for me. It’s my second home since having lived there in the 90ies and gone back more or less every year. It was the first time after […]
Willemstad, Curacao 🇨🇼🇳🇱
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life Transamerica 2021 STOP 8 October 5, 2021 Kralendijk, Bonaire – Willemstad, Curacao Flight distance: 79 nmHours in the air: 0.24 Where pleasure meets biz in the Caribbean So I have to start with a nice episode back on Bonaire. Since I am responsible for ground operations and for […]
Provence 🇫🇷
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life June 20, 2021 The Provence has been on my travel list for many years but in pre-corona times was on the lower end as more exotic destinations lured. This year it was an easy choice as besides the landscape and lifestyle together with those famous lavender fields […]
Tuscany 🇮🇹
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life November 13th, 2020 One could say why Italy again! Well for starters we are still in Covid-19 times which makes flying not the most desirable way to travel, plus wine and Tuscany make up for a great combination 🍷🇮🇹. First stop was the heart of Chianti, Greve […]