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I was catching up with some acquaintences about our various weekend activities and of course it 'tis the season for wine events. One of the topics of discussion that came up was how much more we are noticing the trend of parents bringing their children of varying ages to what you would rightly expect to be 'adult' environs.



Granted there are many family friendly oriented events that have a wine component like the VA Balloon and Wine Festival which is a really great family friendly… Continue

Well when I tell people that I live in WV their remarks are always along the lines of "whats an aussie doing in 'west-by-god' or "why do you live there?" I mean what can I say? I live on the Blue Ridge, we are only 1.5 hours from DC and Baltimore but you'd think I'm living in space to most people. Apart from the semi-rural setting, close to nature, I find myself being in the fortunate position of being within 20 minutes of over 20 wineries - now whats a girl to do about that - yep lucky me.… Continue