Catalonia Calling
Another European Beer Tour in the Books It was new ground for the Ale Street gang – we still call ourselves that, even though the mothership, Ale Street News has been dormant for 8 years – Catalonia, Spain, and as usual we found a solid craft beer scene, some diamonds in the rough, and on this particular trip some spectacular offerings from the vine. I have a 30-year travelogue with Greg Dennis and his company Short Hills Tours. The first 20 years were under the auspices
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Farm Fables – Thoreau-ly Attuned
Two hundred years ago Thoreau built his famous hut on Emerson’s property by his beloved Walden Pond and lived there away from distractions of “modern” life. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,” he wrote, “To front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach."
And I think I had this in mind when I asked a friend if I could park my recently purchased used trailer on the 47-acre farm he had recently acquired.
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Jul 24 min read
