The party is on. We’re having a big party here in Texas (near Dallas) for our alumni and friends on January 5th. We realized the other day that we have quite a few local alumni so it would be fun to have a reunion.

 

We are lucky to have our friend Kate, from the Cinque Terre in Italy. She’s been a great friend to us when we are in Italy, letting us stay in the apartment on the ground floor of her house and making sure we meet all the right people. This year she’s finishing her sommelier courses and so she’s going to do some wine and food pairings for us at the party. She’s just come back from Tuscany where she visited some more vineyards and bed and breakfasts for our new Tuscany wine tour. 

 

 Teresa from Sicily is coming for a couple of weeks and she’ll be there as well. She’s petite and charming. She speaks English with a British accent since some of her Sicilian family lives in the UK. She’ll be there with a Sicilian friend.

 

We’ll have a blast making our favorite Italian dishes and visiting with our alumni. Many of these people live in area but it seems everyone is so busy we haven’t seen each other since we traveled together. We always say that the people are our favorite part of traveling. But it isn’t just the people we meet in faraway places it’s also truly the guests who travel with us. Most of them are well traveled and have great stories.

 

One big advantage we have in being a small travel company is that we get to connect with all of our customers and we’re lucky to have made some great friendships over the years.

 

So if you’ll be in the Dallas area the weekend after New Year’s let us know so we can send you a proper invitation. We’d love to meet you.