Fellow blogger Ali and I (and our husbands) spent the afternoon checking out Expovina (see here for a little info in English). In case you missed my post about the spring edition of Expovina, here’s a brief overview of the idea: you pay CHF 15 apiece to get into a giant wine expo, where you get to sample wines from all over the world until you can no longer stand up. It would be easy to attend every single day of the 2-week-long expo and not run out of new wines to sample. And as if thousands of wines weren’t enough, one can also taste fun things such as Kirsch and Williams and other essential Swiss after-dinner drinks.
The fall edition of Expovina takes place aboard 12 ships that are docked downtown on the lake right at Bürkliplatz. The atmosphere aboard the ships is quaint and cozy, and perfect for sampling a bunch of wine.
After we had drunk our fill of vino, the four of us headed out to dinner. As we were about to leave, a couple walked by our table and started to talk to us. At first I was worried we were about to be reprimanded for being loud and obnoxious (we had been having way too much fun making fun of German health problems), but as it turns out the couple just wanted to say hi. They recognized Ali and I from reading our blogs. It felt like we were celebrities for a moment – not movie starts or chart-topping singers or anything, but more like contestants from some b-list reality show.
Expovina runs through November 16th, so we might even try to go back for a second round. But if we do, for the sake of my circulation, I will be staying far, far away from the cabernet sauvignon (story for another day).
That sounds like a must do event!
Did you write your 1,667 words before or after the vina tasting?!
Jill – I actually did! That’s all I did that morning is write write write. This novel-writing business is damn time-consuming.