Back to Superstork.com Home Page
<<<<<Previous Next>>>>>
November Road Trip to Paso
This Page: Los Olivos, Solvang, and the area
We booked a room at the Corque Hotel in Solvang for Monday and Tuesday nights, hoping for better weather than we had in Paso.
We stopped in Los Olivos and had a nice lunch at the Wine Merchant and then walked over to the Dragonette tasting room for our free wine! Free because we are Dragonette wine club members.
And here we are. You can tell by my attire that the weather had not improved much.
I took a photo of the Samsara tasting room across the street, but our room was available for early check-in so we left Los Olivos and headed to Solvang.
Solvang, a little bit of Denmark in California!
Entry to the Corque
Our room!
Our balcony and view!
The rest of our room.
The bathroom. A sink on each side!
Lorri and the Hund
Jack as the Kat! Hundnkat! Get it?
One of the many windmills in Solvang
The chandelier at the Corque hotel. Very apropos for wine country! Although there are lots of bottles but no Corques!
Tuesday, November 18
What's a Brekkie?
Glad you asked!
This was my brekkie! Crispy tots, sausage, eggs, English muffin, and of course, a breakfast stout! Added plenty of ketchup to everything after the photo, except the stout, of course.
Another windmill
A bit of Denmark
Another windmill
I bet there are no succulents in the real Denmark. Too cooooold!
After breakfast, our first stop was Kaena, pronounced "kah enna" so as to sound Hawaiian.
Finally it was nice enough to sit outside for a tasting, so we did!
It wasn't very crowded, though. Very good wines, a nice setting and good weather!
We are members at Foley so we drove out there, drove in past the open gate and the sign that said "open for tasting", but it was closed! What the...?
So we took a photo of the vines and turned around and went back to the Brick Barn Wine Estate.
Here are some of the bricks.
The entry. We had a miserable tasting here because there was an obnoxious loud-mouth, single guy at the bar who wouldn't shut up and leave us alone, plus they were getting ready for an employee party. But the wine was good and our server did the best she could.
We followed the rainbow back to Solvang but, alas! There was no pot of gold!
Fitzpatrick's Irish Pub where we had our last dinner of the trip, bangers and mash for me, Irish stew for Lorri.
And a bottle of wine!
It was a great week despite all the rain. It's always fun to visit Paso and Solvang!
<<<<<Previous Next>>>>>