Napa Valley, Part I

On Wednesday we headed to Napa. My preconceived picture

was of a few wineries and lots of vineyards and countryside.

Instead there are lots of wineries, some of them called boutiques

which only sell locally or ship.

After checking in we headed out to find a winery built as a castle.

Castello de Amorosa, but when we got there realized camera was

back at hotel so decided to come back another day. Instead we

stopped at a boutique winery and had a tasting on the lawn. I had

on a shirt I had bought on a Princess ship which had “PC” on it so

we began talking to the couple sitting next to us about Princess

cruises, and they were regulars on Princess, so we had a nice

 conversation. They had picked up lunch at a local grocery store and

purchased a bottle of wine at the winery and were enjoying their

lunch with a view.

 On the second day we took the Napa Wine Train.  It was great.

We had appetizers and wine on trip out and lunch on trip in.

The train was beautiful.