Category: Travel

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Red wine, foie gras and Armagnac

No, we didn’t eat all the time, we also hiked along the vineyards, spent time on the beach, and tried to keep out of the rain …

More pictures here.

We spent two weeks in France, in the Aquitaine reqion, which includes the Périgord, famous for its duck and goose products, including foie gras, and the area around Bordeaux, famous for – well, the wine, and the Armagnac region in Western Gascogne, famous for, well, its brandy.

We visited the Clos des Menuts chateau and its wine-making facilities, and we got a tour of the Domaine d’Ognoas brandy distillery and cellars. We came home with more bottles of Bordeaux wine and Armagnac brandy than we care to admit, but it just tastes different once you’ve seen how they make it …

The most remarkable hotel we stayed at was the Domaine de Paguy, a little 16-century chateau in the middle of a vineyard.

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Back in the USA

We traveled to the US for the holidays, first to see Cynthia’s family in Minneapolis, and then to Chicago to spend New Year’s Eve with our friends Dru and Roger.

In downtown Chicago, we saw the “bean”, the big outdoor sculpture with a polished mirror surface – which makes you look even fatter than you really are after all that rich holidays food …

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Incredible India

In October, Cynthia and I spent a week in Northern India, after I went to the RE’07 conference in Delhi. We did the classical “Golden Triangle” tour of Rajasthan, including Delhi, Agra with the Taj Mahal, and Jaipur.

Many more pictures are in the picture gallery.

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Tuscany, May 2007

For two weeks, we stayed in a small village halfway between Florence and Rome, and we explored Tuscany and Umbria.

We stayed at a 16th century villa called Macciangrosso, which now has 4 apartments and a couple of hotel rooms. Because it was still pre-season, we had the whole house and garden to ourselves.

Here we are, with our friends Dru and Roger from Chicago. Many more pictures are in the picture gallery.