Champagne Socialists
April 27th, 2006
With my sister Virginia visiting from Brighton, England, we have been touring the California wine region, which is an hour north of here.
Here is a photo of me and my sister drinking champagne at the Korbel cellars at 10am in the morning, at the start of a hard day’s tasting. Grethe made the ultimate sacrifice of being the designated driver.
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Are you allowed to say "champagne" when you weren’t drinking French fizzy, unless of course you were? Ishall agree with anything you say in your defence and I do hope that Virginia and you have had and may even be having a lovely time.