WINE DINE AND TRAVEL SUMMER 2020 -- SOUTH AFRICA
What to do with a gap between two travel adventures - the end of our thrilling Kenyan safari and the start of an exotic cruise from Cape Town? What else but explore another of the world’s iconic wine regions. Since we met three decades ago, whenever possible, my husband and I seek out wine country pleasures - bucolic views, charming inns, leisurely tastings and casual fine dining. If trips bring us near vineyards - Virginia to Oregon, France to Australia, we visit for an afternoon or several days. This time our wine country destination was South Africa, one of the oldest wine-making regions outside of Europe, where Dutch and French settlers began tending vines in the mid-1600s. For a week, including Valentine’s Day when we celebrated our 31st anniversary, we explored the stunningly beautiful Winelands of the western cape, less than an hour drive from Cape Town.
What to do with a gap between two travel adventures - the end of our thrilling Kenyan safari and the start of an exotic cruise from Cape Town? What else but explore another of the world’s iconic wine regions. Since we met three decades ago, whenever possible, my husband and I seek out wine country pleasures - bucolic views, charming inns, leisurely tastings and casual fine dining. If trips bring us near vineyards - Virginia to Oregon, France to Australia, we visit for an afternoon or several days. This time our wine country destination was South Africa, one of the oldest wine-making regions outside of Europe, where Dutch and French settlers began tending vines in the mid-1600s. For a week, including Valentine’s Day when we celebrated our 31st anniversary, we explored the stunningly beautiful Winelands of the western cape, less than an hour drive from Cape Town.
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Priscilla Lister
Priscilla Lister is a longtime journalist in her native San Diego. She has covered many subjects
over the years, but travel is her favorite. Her work, including photography, has appeared in
The San Diego Union-Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Alaska Airlines’ magazine and numerous other
publications throughout the U.S. and Canada. She is the author of “Take a Hike: San Diego
County,” a comprehensive hiking guide to 260 trails in amazing San Diego County.
Wibke Carter
German-born Wibke Carter has lived in New Zealand and New York, and presently enjoys life, love, and
laughter in London. Her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The San Francisco Chronicle, Binspired
Magazine, The Independent and more. When not traveling, she is trying to tame her two cats and
improve her DIY skills
Michael Burge
Michael Burge is an award-winning journalist who worked for many years as an assistant
metro editor and senior writer for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Michael and his wife,
Kathleen, have logged countless miles visiting adult children in Asia and Scotland. The
couple met as Peace Corps volunteers in Kenya, so they have no one to blame but
themselves for their globe-trotting offspring.
Kitty Morse
Kitty Morse is a Casablanca-born food and travel writer, speaker, and author of 11 cookbooks, five
of them on the cuisine of her native Morocco. Her memoir, Mint Tea and Minarets: a banquet of
Moroccan memories, and its French translation, Le Riad au Bord de l’Oued, are both recipients of a
Gourmand World Award. https://www.kittymorse.com.
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