A Gardening Vacation?

[Branching Out]

A gardening vacation destination for me is Burgos, in the mountains of northern Spain . I have kept track of the weather there for about 12 months now on my Yahoo homepage . Really, the winter weather isn't all that much different and Burgos is getting the warm weather we are supposed to be getting right now in our neck of the woods but summer averages for temperature highs & lows and precipitation . . . average out .

Steve :coolsun

Steve, if you make it over to Spain be sure to spend a few days in Segovia. We were there about five years ago, and the Roman aqua-ducts were mind blowing. It is impossible to imagine the scale of this structure without seeing it in person. That and the tour of Toledo cathedral, south of Madrid, were high points for us. And sangria. Lots of sangria.

 

[Zeedman]

The two garden locations I would love to visit are Turkey, and India.

I've seen photos of street markets in Turkey, and would be obsessively sampling all of the olives, dates, & apricots that we never see here... so that visit would have to be timed for the harvest season. Then browsing through all of the local dry beans. And oh yeah, there are interesting places there too.

And then India. Beans are so important to the diet in India, that they have whole breeding programs for beans that we seldom eat here (like some of the hyacinth beans I've obtained recently). Their street markets must be amazing, and the food would be a culinary adventure in & of itself.

I wish I could visit China, I could happily eat that food for the rest of my life. But given the current geopolitical situation, and me being retired military, that plan will never get beyond the "wish" stage.

I do hope to visit the Philippines this year or next, for an extended stay. To spend time with some of DW's family, and to explore at length the beauty of that country & its people. Some air conditioning required, until (if?) I adapt to the heat.

 

[ducks4you]

I want to visit Croatia, where mother's family is from.
They have vineyards and the longest Adriatic coastline, lots of fish, probably some anchovies, agrarian.
Similar latitude, since Rome is 40 degrees N, like we are.
LOTS warmer.