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beardedmrbean · 1 year

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Today, Bulgarians celebrate Tryphon Zarezan in the old style - the holiday of winegrowers and wine, also known as Zarezanovden, Tryphon Chipia and Tryphon Zarezoi.

The day of the holy martyr Tryphon from ancient times is associated with the first pruning of the vineyards.

President Rumen Radev will be a guest of the Plovdiv village of Ustina on the holiday of vine growers and winemakers. He will take part in the traditional procession to the vineyards of the village and will participate in the ritual of consecration and pruning of the vines.

Rumen Radev will also award the winners of the "best homemade wine" contest.

February 14, also known as Valentine's Day, is celebrated all over the world today. The holiday is named after a martyr saint revered in the Catholic Church. Born not far from Rome, in the 2nd century BC. Since the 18th century, the tradition of sending sweets and cards decorated with flowers, ribbons and signs of love began.

Romantic tradition connects lovers with February 14. The celebration of Valentine's Day is also accepted in Bulgaria. According to what is referred to as a Catholic tradition, St. Valentine is the patron saint of the day, but since several centuries this day has been celebrated by people from all over the world with different religions and cultures.

Valentine's Day is widely celebrated in Western Europe, and the tradition of writing "Valentines", giving flowers and candy and singing serenades is firmly established in the minds of most people in this part of the world. This holiday is said to be auspicious for makers of cards, sweets and all kinds of heart-shaped gifts.

According to the tradition of the English court at the beginning of the 17th century, on Valentine's Day young men and women exchanged rings and candies. Any woman can go and ask the man she likes to be her husband. The important thing is that a man has no right to refuse a lady. But if his heart is already taken, he should give her a silk dress.

In Japan and Korea, the holiday dates back to 1930. In Japan, only men receive gifts on Valentine's Day. The holiday for women comes a month later, on March 14, and the day is called "White Day". Contrary to Japan, in Korea there is a tradition of "Black Day" where all single men get together and get drunk.

In passionate France, Valentine's Day means exchanging jewelry and other romantic gifts, and in Denmark, men give gifts of dried white flowers. On this day in England, girls gather before sunrise and look out the window. The first person they see becomes their husband. In Derbyshire, girls go round the church 12 times at midnight and repeat a magic spell. According to legend, after the ritual they meet true love.

In Jamaica, mass nude weddings are held on this day, and the beaches are visited by numerous newlyweds who have decided to plunge into eternal love. In Brazil, Valentine's Day is celebrated on June 12. On this day, Brazilian women perform magical rituals to attract bachelors. In Israel, the Day of Love is celebrated at the end of summer. The girl can only offer her hand to the boy of her choice.

The Germans associate love with madness and consider Saint Valentine the patron saint of the insane. On this day, psychiatric clinics are decorated with garlands and flowers. Poles believe in the miraculous power of love and therefore consider it their duty to go to church and pray for family happiness.

Valentine's Day is forbidden for Muslims in Saudi Arabia. People who touch the sin of this day are severely punished. It is strictly forbidden to sell red roses, plush toys and heart-shaped goodies in shops. The authorities believe that the "pernicious Western tradition" is confusing the minds of the young generation in Saudi Arabia, inciting them to sin.

In Bulgaria, the confluence of circumstances combines during the holiday Tryphon Zarezan, associated with wine, with Valentine's Day. The two occasions lead to a symbolic union on the Day of Wine and Love. Which are actually related both mythologically and traditionally.

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roberthunter62 · 2 years

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Still Take You Home by Arctic Monkeys

From Leeds to Sheffield. Yorkshire, Yorkshire. Born in Derby, lived in Nottinghamshire as an unaware three-year-old but then indoctrinated in South Yorkshire in my formative years. At a very young age I was taken to a Roses match at Headingly to see both Fred Trueman and Brian Statham bowl (the scorecard was knocking around for years - I just checked it on Cricinfo, Lancashire were all out for 176, the names on the scoresheet ring profound bells... Ken Higgs.... Jimmy Binks... Farook Engineer... Ray Illingworth). Dad says that he thought the match was at Bramall Lane, but turned up there to find it was in Leeds, but we went anyway! 1 June 1968, short of my sixth birthday, getting well indoctrinated. For years I was frustrated that I had been born outside of Yorkshire, which meant I could never open the batting for the county.

With football, I was fortunate that Derby were successful when I was still at an impressionable age, winning the league title when I was nine. And then we went to live in Derbyshire, so the relationship was cemented. But the family ties to Sheffield were multiple and then set in stone when Moira moved there. So my mental geography is the green hills and valleys of the Derbyshire Dales and historical geography extends across to South Yorkshire, which is perhaps the least Yorkshire part of Yorkshire. Of course, the main thing about Yorkshire is the way they talk, but since I’ve discovered that there is an East Midlands dialect and accent continuum, I feel a bit more protective about it - it’s not nearly as violently identifiable as Black Country, Scouse or Geordie, but once you know the key factors, it’s every bit as loveable.

Arctic Monkeys - kids being raucous when I could have been their father (in terms of age, not for any actual genetic opportunities), a stunning album which has been one of my most played of all time and is still especially useful for the last hundred kilometres of long and late drives home from distant vineyards.

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evewine101 · 4 years

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It’s Open That Bottle Night! What will you have? I’m thinking of the Project Espana...see below: . . Next up was an impromptu visit to @DerbyWines for a tasting and winery tour! We learned that there is live music often found on the patio, the former Blue Diamond factory is 84 feet above Paso - check out the private tasting room upstairs for the views and a soundproof experience - plus library wines in their cellar, the comparison tastings and blending they do with the staff, and the three large vineyards they own. Loved almost everything we tasted including the 2014 “Fifteen 10” red Rhone and white blends, 2004 Pinot Noir and my favorite was the 2013 Project Espana Red... . . . And yes, there are still Zebra in San Simeon and that’s where the Derbyshire Vineyard is! . . "Emphasizing the diversity of each of our three northern San Luis Obispo county estate vineyards is the core of the Derby Wine Estates mission.” Read the next edition of @SCVEliteMagazine to learn more! . . #EveBushmanWhatsInYourGlass #RhoneWines #SpanishWines #RedWine #WhiteWine #Paso #PasoWine #WineLover #WineLovers #TallWinery @DerbyWines (at Derby Wine Estates) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9KBmEkgiz-/?igshid=zxniacc0dgor

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travelworldnetwork · 5 years

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It's summertime in southern France and we're cycling the towpath of a canal built more than a century before the bicycle was even invented.

One of Europe's oldest canals still in operation, and arguably its most beautiful, connects Toulouse to the Mediterranean port of Sete. While peddling its 240-kilometre length and back again, stopping often to let locals stuff us with food and wine, I do wonder how the guy who poured his fortune and energy into the Canal du Midi might feel to know his creation is now used purely for fun.

Before we set off many Toulousains told us we were embarking on a trip they'd long intended to do themselves. The canal winds through La France Profonde – anywhere in the country authentic rural life still exists – passing settlements predating its construction such as medieval Castelnaudary and Carcassonne and the former Phoenician cities of Agde and Béziers.

Tourist boat are mooring on Canal du midi in the centre of Carcassonne, France. Photo: Shutterstock

Over the centuries people from these places dreamt of a watery shortcut between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, an alternative passage to the 3000-kilometre storm-prone pirated sea route through the Strait of Gibraltar.

The river Garonne already linked Toulouse to the Atlantic while Toulouse to the Mediterranean required an artificial waterway. The lack of a water source to fill a canal that needed to flow at 583 pied du roi (the king's foot) above sea level at its highest point was the consistent conundrum. Until one day, in 1654, salt tax collector Pierre Paul Riquet hit on the idea of channelling mountain streams into a reservoir.

In his late-50s by then, Riquet had power, vision, ingenuity, wealth and contacts. I'm guessing he was also the obsessive type. The working hydrotechnical model he constructed in the grounds of his private castle got the attention of the Archbishop of Toulouse, who introduced him to the minister of finance who was sure King Louis XIV would be keen.

It took 15 years to build what would become the greatest engineering marvel of that century. At the peak of construction there was a 12,000-person workforce including 600 women. Chief engineer and canal-builder Riquet, who personally funded the project, received major input from local artisans and skilled peasants who he apparently paid properly. Altogether it cost the equivalent of 300,000 hogsheads of strong liquor – a hell of a lot back then – and nearly bankrupted him.

Fifty canal-side kilometres out of Toulouse everything changes. We pass from the Midi-Pyrenees region into the Languedoc-Roussillon region, the motorway disappears and the tarmac cycle path ends. From Seuil de Naurouze, at an altitude of 189.43 metres, it's essentially downhill all the way to the Mediterranean both for the water and for us. The rest of the towpath varies from wide and gravelly to thin with a compacted dirt surface and plenty of tree roots.

From 1681 everything travelled up and down that canal until commercial barging was phased out in the late 1900s. The Canal du Midi has since been granted UNESCO World Heritage status for its engineering marvellousness, for being a catalyst for the Industrial Revolution and the modern technological age and for being a work of art.

Its hundreds of features – aqueducts, feeders, locks, staircase locks, siphons, spillways – are certainly striking but the plane trees lining the canal are what give it a distinct elegance. There were 42,000 planted in the 1830s to stabilise banks, shade barges and reduce evaporation but a fungus called Ceratocystis plantain has infected them. Carefully managed felling and replacement of trees is under way.

Following a waterway is like being in an open relationship with someone you're in love with: there's structure and freedom. The surrounding countryside is rich in fresh produce and we deviate from the canal to forage at village markets and visit vineyards. The train line is nowhere in sight but never far away if plans change.

There's plenty of waterside dining and during that week we consume a ridiculous amount of crepes, croissants, apricot confiture, coffee, baguettes, local wine, duck confit and cassoulet. One afternoon I really just want salad for lunch and not the whole three courses of the plat du jour, with duck heart seven ways. But the response is a waggled finger and a very definite "no". Duck is everything in these parts whether you're devouring it or doing so to avoid being garrotted by low-tied mooring ropes.

Along the Canal Du Midi in Toulouse, France. Photo: Shutterstock

Although it's June and the Canal du Midi draws more than 2 million visitors a year there are very few people either walking or cycling the towpath. That means we can whip past the pleasure barges restricted to eight kilometres an hour and required to negotiate all 63 working locks.

There are times I'm caught up in the riding and there are moments I'm completely blown away by the canal itself. Especially when cycling alongside the canal across an aqueduct over a river – like life imitating Escher – or rolling through the world's oldest canal tunnel. The 165-metre long Malpas is part of Grand Bief (long reach) where the Canal du Midi maintains an altitude of about 31 metres above sea level for the 54 kilometres between the village of Minervois and Riquet's birthplace of Béziers.

In Agde, after a long unshaded stretch, we celebrate our nearness to the Med by drinking pastis while watching water jousting on the Herault river. It's taken four days to get this far and we only have three left to get back to Toulouse.

Canal du Midi at Le Someil a 17 century port with 18 century stone bridge. Photo: Alamy

The mistral headwinds us for much of the return journey. When we pedal into Toulouse late that final evening totally and utterly fatigued, I feel I've given everything to the Canal du Midi. But Riquet gave more. When the canal officially opened in 1681 he had already died the previous year with only five kilometres left to go.

FIVE WATERSIDE ROUTES IN BRITAIN AND EUROPE

LA FLOW VELO

This 290-kilometre cycling route following the Charente River from the Atlantic Coast to Thiviers (northern Dordogne) is one of France's newest. See laflowvelo.com

EUROVELO 6

Cycle some or all 3653 kilometres of the Danube cycle path from France to Bulgaria for an incredible way to experience 10 European countries including Slovakia, Hungary and Croatia. See eurovelo.com

Bridge-canal intersection with Loire river, Briare, France. Photo: Shutterstock

VIARHONA CYCLE ROUTE

This 815-kilometre route from Switzerland's Lake Geneva into France and to the Mediterranean follows the Rhone, one of Europe's great glacially-fed rivers. See en.viarhona.com

TRENT AND MERSEY CANAL

The 150-kilometre canal passes some of the woodlands, meadows, marshes, ponds, grand halls, model farms, formal gardens and hyphenated names of Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire. See sustrans.org.uk

SCOTTISH CANALS

Ever considered cycling from Glasgow to Edinburgh? It's only 97 kilometres on the Fourth and Clyde Canal and the Union Canal via Falkirk. See sustrans.org.uk

The Canal du Midi in the morning, in Beziers, southern France. Photo: Shutterstock

TRIP NOTES

Elspeth Callender travelled at her own expense.

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FLY

Qantas flies daily from Sydney and Melbourne to Toulouse with one or two stopovers. See qantas.com.au

STAY

In Toulouse, Pullman Toulouse Centre. Be sure to book ahead in summer. See accorhotels.com

RIDE

Bring your own or hire a hybrid bike and accessories from La Maison du Velo, which can also advise on canal conditions and detour options after floods or storms. See maisonduvelotoulouse.com

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wine-porn · 2 years

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Lakeside Paso

A few quick notes on the Atascadero Lakeside Wine Festival today… Outstanding in Spot 1: Peachy Canyon‘s Cinsault rosé and the sublime Peche Blanc white blend. Fair perfection in Provence-style rosé for the former, an unbelievable balance of textures in the latter–and the finish will blow your mind. Like I have often mused about Tablas Creek: the beauty of Ancient Peaks is NOT in the hi-profile…

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wine-porn · 2 years

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Last Frontier

One of my favorite vineyards for ultra-cool-climate wines–now incorporated into the new SLO Coast AVA after being relegated to mere *Central Coast* of *San Luis Obispo Co* for decades. Blithering weather, non-stop coastal beatings, and tiny yields. My first go-round with the Syrah from these people, though I’ve had the Derby version a few times. Bright purple-pink-blue in the glass, nose crispy,…

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wine-porn · 5 years

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Dark dark ruby with a thin clear edge. Massive nose flies up at ya, crammed to the rafters with concentrated black cherry, Herbs de Provence, and a Hallelujah chorus of caramel, wet leather, and sweet mo-las-ses. This is a big pinot, thick and warm, ranking up there with some of the more heady versions you find from Russian River Valley and Santa Lucia Highlands. And they did it with Spanish Springs fruit. Easily the biggest Spanish Springs Pinot I have had--most of them to date have been--OK I gotta be careful here because Pinot Noir is such a fickle beast--I'm not going to say thin, and definitely not going to say green, but the three or four Spanish Springs pinots I have had have all been *entry level* pinots. And not big concentrated things to woo cab & syrah drinkers, but easy-going, inexpensive entry-level pinots. Pinot people know what I mean. But this is NOT that wine. This is THICCC. Even though this is one if the 5 coolest-climate vineyards in California, Spanish Springs--at least the one's I've tasted--do not bring to bottle the super vegetal, green Burgundian tendencies like Derbyshire, Stolo, and Riven Rock. Avila gets warm, and Bassi Ranch can crank out some stand-a-fork-up-in-it Pinot, and apparently, so does Spanish Springs. I'm gonna have fun guessing the alcohol on this one, I can tell already. Ripe and juicy--and yes, a touch flabby--in the mouth, but it is ALL pinot, with all that curvy worn velvet--dusty and crushed--pulling funky wet-straw and black olive into play. Ridiculously elegant and sophisticated--both in the nose (maybe even a bit more in the nose) and on the palate. It would have been really interesting to taste this young. A mouth-tingling claw of acid quickly morphs to etching tannin late-swirl, but it is frosted on all sides by the glowing Pinot paradigms which coat and cover everything in their glycerin-y reach. I am going to say 14-7. An absolute must-try for all but the most die-hard of Burgundy & Oregon fans. This is definitely California, baby. Spanish Springs done really REALLY well. 2015 @pasoportwineco PER CASO #PinotNoir #SpanishSprings #EdnaValley San Luis Obispo County 14.6 #pixel (at Paso Port Winery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0PZsXKHaVm/?igshid=7hekcekwmakp

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