Posted by Nick on August 9, 2010
Each September in Greenville, South Carolina, a wine and food weekend dubbed “Euphoria” takes place. It raises money for charities across the state.
Local restaurateurs join musician Edwin McCain and star chef Tyler Florence to make the weekend happen.
The four day event features tastings, workshops, multicourse wine dinners, and live concerts. It all starts off with the Taste of the South. The Culinary Cook-off ends the festivities.
Euphoroa takes place in downtown Greenville. The dates for 2010 are September 23 - 26, 2010. For more information, go to www.euphoriagreenville.com.
Posted by Nick on August 8, 2010
Every year in August hundreds of small family-owned wineries bring out their best bottles for one of the single largest (and best) California wine tasting events. For the past 19 years, lovers of small-production wines have flocked to the Festival Pavilion of San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center to discover and taste some of California’s hidden gems.
The Family Winemakers of California Tasting was originally a trade-only event, but in 1996, Family Winemakers of California opened the annual tasting to the wine-consuming public. With more than 400 wineries on site—representing every wine region in California—this is one of the most diverse, not to be missed tastings in the nation.
2010 San Francisco Tasting:
Sunday, August 22, open to the trade (1:00 - 6:00) and the public (3:00 - 6:00)
Monday, August 23, open to the trade only (1:00 - 6:00)
at Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
For information about the festival, go to www.familywinemakers.org.
Posted by Nick on August 5, 2010
The Alicante Central Market was just listed as a top Alicante must see for travelers. In Alicante, it is known as the Alicante Mercado Central. The market takes place each week from Monday through Saturday, with no operation on Sundays.
Locals visit the Alicante Central Market mostly in the mornings to stock up on fresh fish and local fruits and vegetables. There are even flower sellers out back.
Image: camera_obscura [busy], Flickr
The building where you will find the Alicante Central Market is a two story art deco building that will be hard to miss. The top of the building has a circular dome of sorts, called the “La Rotonda.” And it also has a nice grand entrance, as pictured below.
image: Zador Spanish schools Spain, Flickr
You can find the Alicante Central Market at Avda. Alfonso X el Sabio, 1. Hours are Monday to Saturday: 7:30am - 2:30pm. If you want to mingle with some of the Alicante locals, this is the best place to do it.
Posted by rlashea on July 16, 2010
Donegal is a county in the northwestern region of Ireland, near the border with Northern Ireland. The mostly rugged landscape and coastline contains mountains and cliffs, with occasional beaches and inland Donegal is rugged terrain. Letterkenny is the largest town in the region. Golf is a popular sport with the locals and there are a variety of courses in the county, many close to area accommodations.
Castle Grove Hotel
Located on one of the few private estates in Donegal’s largest town of Letterkenny, Castle Grove Hotel is house in a Georgian-style house. The hotel will make reservations for golfers at nearby courses, as well as arranging sea angling, pony trekking and fishing trips. There is a heli-landing pad on site and walking and golf shoes of guests can be put to dry upon return to the hotel.
Aside from the appointed guestrooms, there are drawing rooms with fireplaces where guests can rest, a library, a TV room and an on-site restaurant that serves Irish recipes, with local seafood, roasts and fresh vegetables from the hotel’s gardens.
Ballymaleel A245 (off Ramelton Road)
Letterkenny
Co. Donegal
011 (+353)749151118
Rosapenna Hotel & Golf Resort
Situated on Sheephaven Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, Rosapenna Hotel & Golf Resort is a seasonal four-star resort with standard rooms, deluxe rooms with views of the bay and suite options. There are two on-site golf courses and a restaurant that focuses on seafood, with fresh fish direct from the pier across from the hotel and scallops caught that afternoon served up in the evening.
If you are into golf, you can take advantage of the golf clinics that are regularly scheduled at the Rosapenna. Clinics include game play on the resort’s championship links, fitness golf advice and help with individual game faults, as well as physical assessment tests to help overcome physical limitations and improve flexibility, balance and posture.
Downings Co Donegal
+353 (0)74 91 55301
Caisleain Oir
Located approximately a mile from the Donegal Airport, the Caisleain Oir is located amidst the mountains and offers a coastline view. Most rooms have windows that overlook the bay. The on-site restaurant serves a wide selection of meat, poultry and seafood dishes with local produce and the bar and lounge offers weekend music with a traditional jam session on Saturday nights.
Annagry, Co. Donegal, Ireland
011 (+353)749548113
Posted by rlashea on July 15, 2010
If you are planning a New York City vacation and have all of the city’s most famous sites on your to do list, a bus tour is a good way to spend a day or two of your trip. New York City bus tours provide transportation and information on the city’s most famous sites, or just a few of the ones you would like to see most.
City Sights NY
City Sights NY bus tours take visitors on double-decker buses with open tops, providing riders with unobstructed views of the most famous attractions. Tour options include full city, downtown, Brooklyn, night tours and a Harlem gospel tour. Private tours are available and packaged tours that include museum admissions and harbor cruises can be arranged. City Sights ticketing location is in the lobby of Madame Tussauds Wax Museum on NYC’s famed 42nd Street.
234 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018
(212) 812-2700
Gray Line
Another double-decker bus option with open air top seating, Gray Line offers a variety of tours similar to City Sights. The most popular tour is the All Loops tour, which takes you past all of the city’s most famous attractions and includes either an Empire State Building or Top of the Rock ticket, admission to the South Street Seaport Museum and a water attraction ticket. The tour is a hop on and off tour, which allows riders to get on and off the buses at over 50 different city attractions as much as they want for 48 hours. Multilingual tours are available.
1560 Broadway
New York, NY 11221
(800) 669-0051
On Location Tours
If you are a movie or TV junkie, On Location Tours offers the New York City bus tours for you. Buses take visitors to some of the most famous filming locations in the city, as well as known celebrity residences. The main tour option with On Location Tours is the New York TV and Movies Sites Tour, on which riders see locations from movies and TV shows like Spider-Man, Ghostbusters, Friends and Gossip Girl. Additional tours, such as the Classics Tour, which takes you past locations seen in films such as The Godfather and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, are available as private tours.
10 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10018-7435
(212) 209-3370
