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    Napa Valley: The Delaplaine 2019 Long Weekend Guide
    Napa Valley: The Delaplaine 2019 Long Weekend Guide
    Napa Valley: The Delaplaine 2019 Long Weekend Guide
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    Napa Valley: The Delaplaine 2019 Long Weekend Guide

    By Andrew Delaplaine

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    A complete guide for everything you need to experience a full weekend in the Napa Valley

    “As newbies to the California Wine Country, this book was an eye-opener. We later got a more detailed guidebook (actually 3), but this was a great way through the door.” –-Hillary C., Augusta
    =LODGINGS, variously priced, from luxurious spas to budget accommodations

    =RESTAURANTS, both upmarket and budget

    =ATTRACTIONS: there’s more to do in the Napa Valley than sipping wine (although...)

    =WINERIES - chosen specially by Delaplaine

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrew Delaplaine
    Release dateMar 13, 2019
    ISBN9780463442005
    Napa Valley: The Delaplaine 2019 Long Weekend Guide
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    Andrew Delaplaine

    Delaplaine lives on South Beach, Miami’s Billion Dollar Sandbar. He writes in widely varied fields: screenplays, novels (adult and juvenile) and journalism. He also has a series of Long Weekend Guides covering some 50 cities around the world. Email: andrewdelaplaine@mac.com He writes several series: The “JACK HOUSTON ST. CLAIR” political thriller novels. “THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES IV,” a series of novels starring the great-great-grandson of the famous consulting detective. “THE ANNALS OF SANTOPIA” series, an epic that follows a Santa born in 1900 through to his death 82 years later. The AMOS FREEMAN police thrillers. Other novels: “The Trap Door” follows a boy who is taken back in time to 1594 and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. “The Meter Maid Murders,” a comic look at a detective trying to nab a serial killer on South Beach who only murders meter maids. Has written and directed three features (one doc, two narrative features), as well as several short films and won several awards for his film work. (See imdb.com for details).  His latest film, “Meeting Spencer,” starring Jeffrey Tambor, won the prestigious Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay.  DELAPLAINE’S “LONG WEEKEND” GUIDES These no-nonsense guides contain Delaplaine’s recommendations and advice for travelers visiting these places for 3 or 4 days. As "The Food Enthusiast," he writes a series of restaurants guides, updated annually. He has no hobbies.

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      Napa Valley - Andrew Delaplaine

      NAPA VALLEY

      The Delaplaine

      2019 Long Weekend Guide

      ––––––––

      Andrew Delaplaine

      NO BUSINESS HAS PAID A SINGLE PENNY OR GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK.

      A list of the author’s other travel guides, as well as his political thrillers and titles for children, can be found at the end of this book.

      Senior Editors - Renee & Sophie Delaplaine

      Senior Writer - James Cubby

      ––––––––

      Copyright © by Gramercy Park Press - All rights reserved.

      ––––––––

      Please submit corrections, additions or comments to andrewdelaplaine@mac.com

      Table of Contents

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      Napa Valley - The Delaplaine 2019 Long Weekend Guide (Long Weekend Guides)

      Other Books by | the Same Author

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      The Adventures of | Sherlock Holmes IV

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      Also By Andrew Delaplaine

      About the Author

      TABLES OF CONTENTS

      WHY NAPA VALLEY?

      GETTING ABOUT

      WHERE TO STAY

      WHERE TO EAT

      Napa

      Yountville

      Rutherford

      St. Helena

      Calistoga

      WHERE TO SHOP

      COOKING CLASSES

      ATTRACTIONS

      WINERIES

      SPAS

      OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR

      LONG WEEKEND SERIES

      LIKE YOU, WHEN I’M heading into a new place, I have bought travel guides and toiled through them hour after hour trying to extract from the book the essence of the city or region I was visiting. Sometimes, sadly, I spent more hours reading the book than I did in the town it purported to tell me about. To judge by the size of some of these books, you’d think I was planning on spending my life there, not just a few days.

      By including exhaustive detail in their guidebooks, many writers actually end up obscuring the essence of the city they’re writing about rather than revealing it.

      If you’re going to stay two or more weeks in a place, then by all means do your homework. There are hundreds of guides, both in print and online, to assist you.

      But if you’ve only got 3 or 4 days, your needs really are different. 

      I would want to know:

      = LODGINGS. What would be the best hotels or B&Bs or inns to choose from? I would want a choice of 4 or 5 places in different budget categories. (For the kid with a backpack will be on a different budget than someone on an expense account. A retired couple will have different wants and needs than a family of four.)

      = RESTAURANTS. What would be a good selection of restaurants, again within different budget levels, that would represent the area I’m visiting? Again, whether expensive or cheap, which of the thousands of places to eat will give me a feel for the town?

      = ATTRACTIONS. Of all the attractions and things to do, which are the most important that will leave me with memories that I’ve really seen the place?

      = SHOPPING? Something different and out of the way reflective of the area. Not the big chains, whether that chain is Tiffany or the Gap. Something local.

      Rather than craft a definitive itinerary for you the way many others have done, I’ve expanded the listings in each section so that you could get a good range of the offerings available—so you can pick and choose among them to craft your own special Long Weekend.

      WHY NAPA VALLEY?

      Vineyards_in_Napa_Valley

      DEPENDING ON THE TIME of year, there’s nothing more fun than taking a trip out to the wine country, especially Napa and Sonoma counties. In fact, after you make your first trip, you’ll come back and focus on this special part of America, so completely a world unto itself that there’s literally nothing else like it in this country. I am in the wine trade myself (my family produces a fine sparkling wine using grapes from Napa and Sonoma), so I know a little bit about it.

      The two valleys are just an hour’s drive north of San Francisco.

      The two counties are quite different in layout and attitude. Though Napa is more famous than Sonoma, winemaking actually began in Sonoma (in 1835) a whole generation before vineyards were planted in the 35-mile long Napa Valley. And while vineyards line Napa from one end to the other, in Sonoma

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