Life on the Vine

It's hard to believe that it's been four months since our new adventure in Italy began.  Time is going by so quickly.  I know I've been remiss in posting to my blog and I hope to get better.  I do fairly regular photo posts on my public Instagram page so you can check that out if you want to see more timely updates.  You don't need an Instagram account to view it either.  So...a lot has happened since my last post.  We are all settled into our house and had an Open House/House Warming party at the end of September.  We served Arizona wines at the party.  Here is the line up we set out for folks to try. Love highlighting Arizona wines...even while in Italy. Tom and I had a ton of fun and we were having such a great time with our guests that we don't have a single photo from the party!  Just this picture of the wines we pulled out.  We had about thirty people stop by and it was a great mix.  Our Italian landlord came by with h...

It's been two months since I took Tom on his mystery birthday trip.  He was traveling when I was planning the trip so I was sending him hints by e-mail on where we were going.  Hints like: One of the cities we are visiting has been called the Venice of its country.  The country we are visiting is serious about its beer and its not Germany.  We are visiting two cities in a country with two official languages.  He wasn't really into the guessing game though.  I eventually did tell him where we were going.  So, when we were packing for the trip, he already knew we were going to Belgium to visit Bruges and Brussels.   The Bell Tower I did an earlier blog that included photos of our eating and drinking exploits, featuring a lot of photos from our Belgium trip.  I never really shared any photos or information about the other stuff we did while on that trip. Seeing as how I've got to get around to returning the Rick Steves guidebook I borro...