Word: wines
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More than ever, the returning voyagers speak glowingly of life in Europe's countryside, of good meals and friendly people in pubs, auberges, wine gardens and pousadas. Take Chicagoans Alvin and Susan Schonfeld, who are, respectively, a physician and an IBM telecommunications specialist. "We book into a major city," says Susan, "then try to get out into the countryside and talk to the people." After ten trips abroad, the only complaints they have are about "some terrible red tape in China...
...Adele Klate, owner of Los Angeles' Gulliver's Travels. "They know the small hotels, the little restaurants. They're not buying the highly touted places any more." The American tourist redux is more worldly in his activities and tastes, particularly when it comes to food and wine. He does not recoil from snails, eels and sweetbreads as he once did, orders tortellini ai funghi porcini with authority, and often chooses a vintage he knows from back home...
...acre wild park. A balconied apartment, with terry-cloth bathrobes, curtained beds and a bowl of cherries awaiting the guests' arrival, can be had for a bit more than $100. The 43-room castle has an excellent restaurant where a seven-course meal costs $33 a person, wine and tips not included...
Cashing in on the new ascendancy of Italian wines in the U.S., a number of tour operators are offering a variety of wine tours, with immense success. One extravaganza, a twelve-day Bacchanalian Trip organized by Compagnia Italiana Turismo (CIT), meets guests at the Rome airport and deposits them, twelve vinous days later, at the Turin airport. The $698 immersion includes hotels, unlimited wine bibbing, visits to vineyards and cellars in the major winegrowing areas, and espresso and sympathy the mornings after...
With such flights of rhetoric, dishes of strawberries and cream, and a generous flow of white wine, the Rhodes Trust last week exuberantly mounted its 80th anniversary party. Since 1903, Rhodes' generous legacy has annually sent a contingent of scholars from Britain's colonies and possessions, or their succeeding states, as well as Germany,* to study at Oxford for up to three years. In all, some 4,700 have been tapped to join the programs, including the 71 scholars now in residence (32 from...