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- A Passion for Art, Learning and Culture
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Our passion for art, learning and culture all began after finishing graduate school when we moved to…
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- A Passion for Food and Wine
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We love food. We love wine. But while we certainly enjoy the aromas, tastes and textures of both, we…
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- A Passion for the San Francisco Bay Area
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Tom and Joyce love exploring, finding interesting restaurants, touring wine regions, hiking and goin…
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- A Passion for Travel
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Tom and Joyce seem to have been born to travel. Although neither of us experienced much of it as chi…
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By Joyce on January 24, 2020 Ghent is an easy day trip from Brussels. The city was built on the basis of textiles. As a major trading center in the Middle Ages, it built a grand city center to celebrate and demonstrate its position and wealth. It continued being prosperous through the mid-17th century until the Dutch closed the canal that [Read more …]
Category: Belgium, Destinations, Dining, Europe, Featured-City, Ghent, Restaurants, Travel By Joyce on January 21, 2020 Leuven Belgium is an easy 20-minute train from Brussels, making it a perfect day trip. Julius Caesar found this lovely, historic town as a fortified Roman Empire camp. It grew to become the seat of one of Europe’s most important universities in the Middle Ages—a school at which professors including Erasmus and Mercator taught. Today, [Read more …]
Category: Belgium, Destinations, Dining, Europe, Featured-City, Leuven, Restaurants, Travel By Joyce on January 18, 2020 Brussels is Belgium’s capital and largest city. The Frank Kingdom (a barbarian kingdom) established the city in 977. Successive generations of the Holy Roman Empire and Burgundy dukes and Netherlands regimes built it into a powerful fortress and trading city. Today Brussels is divided into two primary sections:
Lower Town is by the river. It [Read more …]
Category: Belgium, Destinations, Europe, Featured-City, Travel
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By Joyce on December 22, 2019 Burning Man is an annual event, or should we say happening, that takes place in Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada. Burning Man is a gathering of a community in a temporary city, not to be confused as a festival. Each attendee is a participant in the event and is encourage to provide something to [Read more …]
Category: Activities, California, Destinations, Featured-Trips, Museums, North America, San Francisco, Travel, United States By Joyce on November 18, 2019 Farallon Restaurant has a long tradition of hosting an annual pinot noir tasting that draws pinot producers from around the U.S. and, less regularly, from other countries.
It continued this tradition with its November 2019 PinotFest tasting. We attended the trade tasting on the day before the consumer tasting. We tasted more than 100 wines [Read more …]
Category: Featured-Trips, Food & Wine, SF-Passion, SF-Wine/Wineries, Wine Events, Wine/Wineries By Joyce on October 10, 2019 Although we travel about 6 months a year, we rarely post reviews of individual airlines. We have been on some good ones and some not so good ones. Probably the best has been Emirates. Their coach is more like business class in the US. And the flight attendants are very good.
Many people detest [Read more …]
Category: Featured-Trips
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