Monday, September 9, 2013

sebastian and maria visit

Our friends Seb and Maria (cast members of The Real World: St. Tropez) live in London and a few weeks ago they took the train up to Cambridge to visit us for the weekend. 

We picked them up at the train station and headed to Cambridge proper and picnicked along the River Cam.  It was a scorcher of a day and the city was packed.  We watched hen parties, drunken twenty-somethings, and families punt up and down the river. 

The rest of the weekend was spent hobnobbing around a few of our local establishments, taking countryside walks, and drinking much better quality wine than Marco and I are accustomed to due to Sebastian's career-in-the-wine-industry posh perks.  Love you Seb! 

A few photos from below from their visit.






After a weekend of wine talk, I became determined to learn a bit more about wine.  This is my usual wine buying routine: Locate the reds section.  Locate Rioja, or Pinot Noir, or Bordeaux.  Choose a middle shelf priced wine or a $$$ that is slashed in price.  It is not my goal to attempt to memorize every vintage or varietal, but just to have a knowledgeable approach when it comes to purchasing and identifying the best value for your money.  "Oh yes, 2009 was a good year for South Africa ......"  We'll see!

Some amazon.co.uk (used) book scores totaling £2.22:

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