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WINE DINE&
TRAVELFALL 2013PREMIERE ISSUE
NEW CALEDONIACOLORADO FOOD DUDESWALKING HADRIAN’S WALLGUADALUPE VALLEY WINE COUNTRYGREAT DESTINATIONS : TRULY GRANDTHE WIZARD OF ADDISON
AMSTERDAMThe Windmills of Zaanse Schans The Anne Frank House
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COVER PHOTO: While walking around central Amsterdam we came across this powerful scene of majestic buildings flanking one of the major canal transit hubs used mostly for tour boats. I took this and the other photos in the Amsterdam feature
section with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS8 camera . - Ron James
NEXT EDITION | WINTER 2013
Essential LondonLondon for FoodiesChelsea Flower ShowSteam Trains of WalesExploring England’s Isles of ScillyAttending Oxford U on My Vacation Henry VIII’s Hampton Court+ PANAMA CANAL CRUISING, LAS CALETAS: JOHN HUSTON’S PRIVATE
HIDEAWAY, UTAH’S SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS, READER PHOTOS & MORE
SPECIAL SECTION
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WELCOME
Welcome to the premiere edition of Wine Dine & Travel magazine - written and published by veteran professional journalists who have a passion for travel and great food. Our goal
is to enlighten and entertain readers and travelers who delight in exploring our planet.
WD&T is a logical extension of our award-winning-regional online magazine Wine & Dine San Diego. We will continue to cover Southern California and the West Coast, but have extended our editorial hori-zons globally.
WD&T will publish quarterly, mainly because everyone involved in this project travels – a lot. So two months travel and one month produc-tion seems quite civilized to us. The website, www.winedineandtravel.com, however, will be updated regularly with real-time coverage of
our travel and culinary adven-tures.
Our magazine is free on all platforms through our online distribution partners. There are also special free apps for iPad and iPhone. But for many, print is still the gold standard. Our tech-nology partner MagCloud offers an innovative print process that delivers our readers a glossy, perfect-bound magazine - just like the ones on newsstands. We feel this broad distribution strategy serves our readers best for this time of sweeping tech-nological and social change.
In the end, neither technology nor distribution will make us success-ful. Readers will buy the magazine or read the digital version because of the quality of the stories and features. We couldn’t deliver that without our great contributors – friends and journalistic colleagues who are award-winning, experienced and expert travel, food and wine writers. (Learn more about them all on the next page.)
We hope you enjoy our new magazine and will consider it to be a valued resource in planning your journeys. Like travel, publishing is an adventure - and we hope you enjoy the ride as much as we do.
Ron & Mary James
Mary Hellman James is an award-winning San Diego journalist and editor. After a 29-year-career with the San Diego Union-Tribune, including 13 years as Home and Garden editor, James currently is a freelance garden writer and a columnist for San Diego Home-Garden/Lifestyles magazine. She also is executive editor of California Garden, the award-winning 102-year-old magazine published by the San Diego Floral As-sociation. She and her husband, Ron James, travel extensively. Upcoming this year is a Canada - New England -- New York cruise and a five-week stay in India and Nepal.
MARY JAMES
RON JAMES
Ron James is the "wine and food guy." He is an award-winning veteran food and wine journalist., television producer and radio personality. He began his journalism career in 1973 and pio-neered online media beginning in 1994 with the first major online city publica-tion, San Diego Magazine. He helped found Time Warner's Road Runner network and led the San Diego Union-Tribune's online editorial efforts for nearly a decade. The native Californian's nationally syndicated wine and food columns have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world.
He is passionate about great wine and food and enthusiastically enjoys them every day!
publisher/executive editor
publisher/editor
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MEET OUR WD&T CONTRIBUTORS
Carl H. LarsenCarl H. Larsen is a veteran journalist based in San Diego. He now focuses on travel writing, and is sum-moned to pull out his notebook whenever there’s the plaintive cry of a steam locomotive nearby. His hike along Hadrian’s Wall was a bit off character, but allowed for an exploration of remote pubs and welcom-ing B&Bs. In San Diego, he is a college-extension instructor who has led courses on the Titanic and the popular TV series “Downton Abbey.”
Sharon Whitley LarsenSharon Whitley Larsen’s work has appeared in numerous publications, including Los Angeles Times Maga-zine, U-T San Diego, Reader’s Digest (including 19 international editions), and Creators Syndicate. She’s also a contributor to several Chicken Soup for the Soul editions. Although she enjoys writing essays, op-ed, and people features, her favorite topic is travel (favorite destination London). With passport in hand, she’s always ready for the next adventure!
Alison DaRosaAlison DaRosa is a six-time winner of the Lowell Thomas Gold Award for travel writing, the most presti-gious prize in travel journalism. She served 15 years as Travel Editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune. She was the award-winning editor of the San Diego News Network Travel Page. She produces and edits the San Diego Essential Guide, a highly rated and continually updated travel app for mobile devices. Alison is a regular freelance contributor to the travel sections of U-T San Diego, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today.
John AlongéPopularly known as the Wine Heretic, John Alongé is a well-respected “educational entertainer” on food and wine topics with well over 1,000 corporate presentations on his résumé. He has written a variety of articles for international wine publications and is oft-quoted in food and wine industry trade journals. Alongé began his career working in the vineyards of the Loire Valley in France. He has studied at both the Ecole d’Oenologie in Bordeaux as well as UC Davis Extension in viticulture and viniculture. Additionally, he teaches wine business and tasting classes at San Diego State University Extended Studies. The Wine Heretic’s Bible, Alongé’s latest book, offers “Plain English Advice for the Casual Wino”.
Julia WeilerJulia Weiler is a correspondent who covers San Diego for Forbes Travel Guide. Her wanderlust has led her on far-flung adventures, like housesitting in Fiji, backpacking through Southeast Asia, road-tripping in Mexico and building homes in Papua New Guinea with Habitat for Humanity. Her stories are published in an award-winning series of humorous travel anthologies, including Sand in My Bra. Weiler contributes to Ocean Home Magazine and is a correspondent for the website Wine and Dine San Diego. When not wandering or writing, she likes surfing Southern California’s best breaks.
Robert WhitleyRobert Whitley writes the syndicated “Wine Talk” column for Creators Syndicate and is publisher of the online wine magazine, Wine Review Online. Whitley frequently serves as a judge at wine competitions around the world, including Concours Mondial de Bruxelles, Sunset Magazine International and the Dallas Morning News TexSom wine competitions. Robert also operates four major international wine competitions in San Diego: Critics Challenge, Winemaker Challenge, Sommelier Challenge and the San Diego International.
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PUBLISHERS
Ron & Mary James
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Ron James
EDITOR
Mary James
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Julia Weiler
John Alongé
Sharon Whitley Larsen
Carl Larsen
Alison DaRosa
Robert Whitley
Denise Jones
Frank Mangio
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ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER/EDITOR
David Nelson
CONTACT
Wine Dine & Travel Magazine is a Wine Country Interactive Inc. company @ 2013
A large enthusiastic Copacabana Beach local with a full body skeletal tattoo just found out about our magazine. He cele-brates by doing a rather scary dance with coconut shells.
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CONTENTS
A city that has the perfect blend of beauty, history, ar-chitecture, culture, and interesting people. And it had one other thing that puts a city on our return list – energy. Amsterdam has it in spades..
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M 20 42It was in 1942 that a young Jewish girl received a red-checked diary for her 13th birthday.That gift became world-famous, a powerful World War II document .
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Home Ranch is a dude ranch with a difference. Al-though the room was log cabin rustic, the communal table settings were as beautifully sophis-ticated as those in trendy restaurants on either coast.
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The Grand Del Mar was named Cali-fornia’s #1 Resort in Travel + Leisure’s 2013 World’s Best Awards, and while I was mildly discour-aged to learn of it’s off-the-beach loca-tion, I decided to go forward with the booking. I couldn’t have made a better choice.
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NS32Young Thomas Hinderhofer never even considered a career as a cruise ship officer. And even though it hadn’t crossed his mind, practically everything he did in his middle and high school life was preparing him for just that.
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6462Amazing pho-tos taken by our readers. They are traveling the globe, and recording their adventures in surprisingly creative ways.
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Take a hike, I’ve been told many times in my career. So, heading into my bucket-list years, I decided to take up the advice so many have freely ren-dered.
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When someone tells me that San Diego doesn’t have fine-dining restau-rants that compare with San Francisco, Chicago or New York, I point them to a culinary jewel just a stones throw from our sparkling beaches.
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On all levels, a visit to the Guada-lupe Valley in Baja, ninety minutes from the US-Mexico border, can provide a rewarding wine-country experience.
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New Caladonia offers miles of powdery white sand beaches and a sea in so many shades of blue – from pale turquoise to polished lapis, from cerulean to cobalt – that it de-fies description.
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British Drawings: 1600 to the Present Day
October 5, 2013 – April 13, 2014British artists have used drawing in a wide range of ways: to think on paper and to build up storehouses of ideas, as well as to make finished exhibition pieces. Covering 400 years of drawing practice and including works by Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Constable, Blake, Rossetti, Spencer, Freud and Hockney, this display traces the central role played by drawing in portraiture and ‘landskip’, and in movements from Romanticism to Minimalism.
VICTORIA AND ALBERT
Passport to ParisOctober 27, 2013 – February 9, 2014
Passport to Paris brings together works from the rock stars of the art world—Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and more. This exhibition’s trio of shows fo-cuses on French art from the late 1600s to early 1900s and explores changes in art and society during three important centuries in art history.
DENVER ART MUSEUM
October 5 –13, 2013.
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is a world-renowned attraction and destination that feature spectacular balloon ascensions and fair-like festivities. Guests from all over the world come to Albuquerque to celebrate ballooning. Liter-ally hundreds of balloons will be taking flight from the Balloon Fiesta Park this year.
ALBUQUERQUE BALLOON FIESTA
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