Poppies and Dutch windmills, ancient and
modern, North Holland
The road to Scandinavia is littered with good
intentions. We have been on it for 2½ weeks and this, other than a series of
Facebook, Linked in and Twitter posts and photographs published on Instagram,
is the first issue of MENU since before we left home. As we write this, we are
in Denmark having driven from Holland through Germany, Denmark and Sweden to
Norway and we are now en route to Schipol and home at the end of the week.
We’ll have more in the next issue
MENU's Scandinavian Odyssey 1. North Holland-
MENU's Scandinavian Odyssey 2. Germany
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MENU's Wine of the Week; Du Toitskloof Chenin Blanc 2017
We decided, while we are still fit and able, to
travel more. For the last two years it was Lynne’s turn to show John places she
loved which he had not visited: Greece and Turkey and then Hong Kong. John
worked in Oslo in Norway in the late 1960’s while he trained to be a
photographer, so this year we decided to go north – no wine farms, probably no
restaurants as we heard it was very, very expensive (it is!) but a great trip
to plan. We don’t like organised tours and the thought of a bus trip is a
complete anathema. So the plan was to fly to Schipol in Holland, hire a car,
and drive to Scandinavia, through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway
– and back
We left Holland at 9 am and drove across the huge
Ijsselmeerdijk to Friesland and then crossed the border into Germany. Our first
stop would be Hamburg. The German autobahns are legendary – well they were; it
seems that all over the north they are rebuilding them and widening them. What
we imagined would be a lovely day’s drive was hell. Two lanes squeezed onto the
oncoming side, so tight that we really feared for the car’s sides
MENU's Wine of the Week; Du Toitskloof Chenin Blanc 2017 in a box. Not entirely Tongue-in-Cheek.
When we travel,
we mitigate the high prices of wine in other countries by packing a 3 litre box
of quaffable wine in each suitcase. Gentle acidity; apple and tropical fruit
flavours. Perfect for a sundowner: here on the stoep of a Swedish wooden cabin
in Varberg
23rd May 2017
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