The Byass-Gonzalez winery in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, makers of Tio Pepe, has a very unusual guestbook: distinguished, or at least famous, visitors are asked to autograph wine barrels! When we visited we saw quite a few…Picasso, Churchill, and more, but this is the one that struck me the most…the work of the French poet, novelist, artist and igniter of controversies.
His characteristic drawing is accompanied by the inscription “Here I have drunk the blood of kings!”
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Of all the grand features of Paris’s Grands Magasins, Paul Heymont’s favorite is the stained glass dome at Printemps
I’ve seen Jerez de la Frontera on the map and have wondered about it. So far I haven’t contrived to get there, close, but not quite. But as the name says, a place at the edge, so I must sometime, right? What did you think of it?
Well, borders change and Jerez is no longer “on the edge” of anything. Aside from the sherry houses, it seemed a pleasant mid-size city with nice parks and squares, a gorgeous tiled rail station and an Alcazar with an interesting history. The last two are featured in a blog here on TravelGumbo. See https://www.travelgumbo.com/blo…-window-into-history
Yes, I saw the Alcazar pictures and loved them. I was thinking more along the lines of a suitable place for hanging out a few days or more, my favorite activity, if you can call sitting in cafes an activity. Sounds like a candidate. I still consider it at an edge, less than 100 miles from another continent.
Well, the two cafes we sat in both had pleasant pastries, and quite an assortment of sherries. And there are many smaller towns nearby that would have been of interest if we had had more time.