Too much spaghetti and beer bloated me up and had a sweaty sleep. However a shower, more spaghetti, apple pastry and mineral water revived me. I had a mess to clean up with spaghetti sauce all over the walls. Caked pots in short an East German beer disaster! At noon a farewell to Sorin. AContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” 18July1974: Heading North from Bucharest: Sending Gypsies Running in Fear!”
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RKS Wine: A California Cabernet Sauvignon on Training Wheels!
There are LCBO Vintages consultants that know their stuff and can be trusted. Some can’t thinking the LCBO knows how to select wine and who are you to question the big monopoly. One trusted Vintages consultant suggested Long Barn Cabernet Sauvignon as an entry level Cabernet Sauvignon with a “California” designation which means that 100%Continue reading “RKS Wine: A California Cabernet Sauvignon on Training Wheels!”
“Travels to a Different Time” : 5/6August1973: Dubrovnik and Drevnik Yugoslavia: My Thoughts about Germans: Is it Time for Forgiveness?
August 5th: Up early and avoided the barking of the beanshaved man and plaintive complaining of the maid. A breakfast of Fructal cherry nectar, orange jam and bread. Read until noon and off to the beach until three. Met a guy from Vancouver and since I had no food left ate at the hostel cafeteria.Continue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 5/6August1973: Dubrovnik and Drevnik Yugoslavia: My Thoughts about Germans: Is it Time for Forgiveness?”
“Visionary Gardeners”: “The Northern Garden”
The Canadian television series “Visionary Gardeners” is a five-part series premiering March 7, at 9 p.m. ET on Vision TV and it runs for 5 weeks in half hour segments. It features avid Canadian gardeners with their own vision of what a garden is. You may think the series is about them and their gardensContinue reading ““Visionary Gardeners”: “The Northern Garden””
“Travels to a Different Time” : 15July1973: Ios, Greece: Grab the Buns While They Are Hot!
Interesting I was reading a book and one of the characters was explaining her day in Greece in the late 1960’s. Get up have breakfast and walk to one end of the village to get bread for breakfast and lunch. Read. Have a nap and walk to the other end of the village for wineContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 15July1973: Ios, Greece: Grab the Buns While They Are Hot!”
RKS Wine: North Coast California Dough Cabernet Sauvignon: How a State Monopoly for Liquor Distribution Mocks Us
You may have seen wine “on sale” at your LCBO. Sale most often means a whopping and quite frankly insulting $1.00 or $2.00 discount. Wow! Shiver me timbers! Then the roof gets blown off “a la State Monopoly” with manager discounts that can be as high as 30%. Beyond 30% seems a place no liquorContinue reading “RKS Wine: North Coast California Dough Cabernet Sauvignon: How a State Monopoly for Liquor Distribution Mocks Us”
“Travels to a Different Time” :9August1972: Thoughts on Dublin: Bloody Remains of Blown Up Terrorist, Rubber Bullets and Screaming Mob: Welcome to Northern Ireland
In a way I am regretting my coin toss in Paris that sent me northward. What has it revealed? Awful accommodations, hair lice, great breakfasts, great beer, fish and chips in newspaper and more or less friendly people. But the air and the smells are different than southern Europe. Dublin is a cold city inContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” :9August1972: Thoughts on Dublin: Bloody Remains of Blown Up Terrorist, Rubber Bullets and Screaming Mob: Welcome to Northern Ireland”
RKS Wine: A Chardonnay from Mendoza? El Enemigo; Digressing into The Battle of Britain
Mendoza for many is the home of some of the best Argentinian Malbecs but not really on the radar for Chardonnay. Mendoza keeping us on our toes! We try a El Enemigo 2018 Chardonnay from Mendoza. The bottle is a heavy brute enough to give the carbon neutral crowd a mental hernia. On the noseContinue reading “RKS Wine: A Chardonnay from Mendoza? El Enemigo; Digressing into The Battle of Britain”
RKS Wine: A Portuguese Wine from The Wharf
Cais da Ribeira means a wharf by the riverside and that is the name of a Douro Red we are trying. Porto is the main city of the Douro wine region. On the Porto side the Ribeira is on The Douro River and there are restaurants and shops tucked away but there are some grandContinue reading “RKS Wine: A Portuguese Wine from The Wharf”
RKS Films: “Intimate Enemy”: Who Controls the System?
This Slovakian film was part of the 2021 European Union Canadian Film Festival but I am sure it will be circulating around the globe as it asks an important question and that is who controls the computer system? The next time you look at a security camera spying on you well this film might comeContinue reading “RKS Films: “Intimate Enemy”: Who Controls the System?”
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