{"id":13209,"date":"2019-12-21T21:16:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T20:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winebus.es\/?p=13209"},"modified":"2019-12-21T21:32:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T20:32:13","slug":"wine-and-travel-lovers-are-nice-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winebus.es\/en\/2019\/12\/21\/wine-and-travel-lovers-are-nice-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine and travel lovers are nice people"},"content":{"rendered":"
We are lucky people<\/strong>. The activity we offer allows us to meet very interesting people who also come with the best of attitudes.<\/p>\n They are not just people who like wine but move to visit wineries, travel and meet other people.<\/strong> All these characteristics define a specific profile. And can be said in very few words. They are really attractive.<\/p>\n The activity itself acts as a filter. A filter that we are delighted that exists, because the visitor has generally done that activity before and knows more or less what is going to happen.<\/p>\n There are two types of foreign tourists visiting Spain:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1) Those who come from northern Europe looking for our beaches, good weather.<\/strong> They look in Spain what the North American of the East Coast looks when visiting Florida.<\/p>\n 2) There is also the inland tourist<\/strong>, who seeks to visit the big cities, and looks for his wines, gastronomy (tapas, good food), history, monuments, parties,<\/strong> etc.<\/p>\n 60% of the 83 million who visit Spain come from the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy<\/strong>. These are mostly from group 1.<\/p>\n We are dedicated to meet the needs of group 2.<\/strong> It is a growing and tremendously grateful group with what you see. This is the visitor of our Madrid Wine Tours<\/a>.<\/p>\n Those people usually wear a smile from ear to ear since the beginning of the activity. They put everything on their part to make the tour unforgettable.<\/strong><\/p>\n With someone with that profile …\u00a0 We are committed to making them enjoy with their five senses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n We love history.<\/strong> And as most of our tours are in Castilla la Mancha and Castilla y Le\u00f3n<\/strong> we talk on our tours of the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n We ensure that most of the attractions in the area that we visited are present<\/strong>. They are a delicious complement to our winery visits.<\/p>\n We tell them our stories,<\/strong> but in an experience that lasts about 10 hours, we not only talk about our surroundings but also about ourselves<\/strong>, and our visitors do the same. With this, and given how social our activity is, our clients become many times friends.<\/strong><\/p>\n Before starting this activity a quite a few years ago we were interested in history<\/strong>. But it was this Winebus project that has unleashed a much greater interest in us<\/strong> when we saw that our visitors enjoyed the stories we told them.\u00a0<\/p>\n There we are. Learning from our own story and telling what we learn<\/strong>, probably right where it happened. The visitor<\/strong> who comes normally knows some details of our history<\/strong>.<\/p>\n We try to summarize the best that we can where they are going to find.<\/strong> We ourselves were surprised at the result by making that summary that allows us to fit pieces that imply a coherent whole.<\/p>\n Castilla is amazing.<\/strong> It has an additional attraction because in these lands even more things happened than in the rest of Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n With the fall of the Roman Empire, all Europe fell into darkness<\/strong> and loss of consciousness. The culture that existed was maintained by the monks who were among the few who knew how to read and write.<\/strong><\/p>\n At that time It was not important to read and write if there was almost nothing to read and write.<\/p>\n Poor people survived as much as they could<\/strong> if there was enough food and they didn’t get sick.<\/p>\n Rich people dedicated themselves exclusively to killing animals<\/strong> (hunting) or people<\/strong> (wars with their neighbors or going to the Crusades to Jerusalem or in Spain with the Arabs).<\/p>\n Gutenberg<\/strong> appears and invents the printing press<\/strong>. And that means a revolution. Because there are more people willing to learn to read and write (and think).<\/p>\n In Castilla, Isabel<\/strong> marries Fernando de Arag\u00f3n<\/strong>. They become kings of Castile and Aragon<\/strong>. And together they conquer Granada in 1492.<\/strong><\/p>\n At that time there is a second revolution. The art of sailing<\/strong> of which the Portuguese become precursors. The Portuguese<\/strong>, having Castilla as a neighbor, saw their most natural exit through the sea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n They went to the South<\/strong>, without leaving the coast of Africa too far<\/strong>. and discovering land and amount of wealth that motivated its continued descent to the south.<\/p>\n The Ottomans take Constantinople in 1453<\/strong>. Constantinople was the captain of the Eastern Roman Empire. Over there passed the Silk Road.<\/strong> With the capture of the city this route is broken, also important for Europe to bring everything that came from the East since the time of Marco Polo.<\/p>\n The Portuguese then have even more reasons to seek to reach China and India from the south.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Spaniards, through Christopher Columbus seek the same thing sailing west<\/strong>. And they discover a new continent where they find a wealth of wealth.<\/p>\n It is understandable that at that time the only important actors were the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal.<\/strong> They were also important that something unusual happened in 1494. On that date and with the mediation of the Pope of Rome there was a meeting between Spaniards and Portuguese to spread the world.<\/p>\n In that meeting, an imaginary line was created in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/strong> Until that line, the discovered territories would be for Portugal, and from that line, they would be for Spain.<\/p>\n Spain focused on the exploration of America<\/strong> and Portugal<\/strong> in the search and exploitation of the road discovered with the passage of the Cape of Good Hope.<\/strong><\/p>\n Then there would be Magellan and the circumnavigation of the world<\/strong> but that is another story.<\/p>\n In our Madrid Wine Tours<\/a><\/strong> we talk about these stories and many others because we think that when we taste a wine from Ribera del Duero<\/strong>, or Toro, Rueda or La Mancha, all those stories we want to think are also found in our wines.<\/p>\n The wines are made even better by listening to those stories and the stories become even more beautiful if you are drinking a glass of wine. We believe that everything is more beautiful with a glass of wine in hand.<\/p>\n Cheers!<\/p>\n Written by<\/strong><\/p>\n Ignacio Segovia<\/p>\n Ceo of\u00a0Winebus<\/a><\/p>\n Madrid Wine Tours<\/a><\/p>\n Other publications<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Beautiful stories with a glass of wine in hand.<\/a><\/p>\n The bell tower of the Cathedral of Segovia<\/a><\/p>\n Drinking wine 5 centuries ago in Ribera del Duero<\/a><\/p>\nWine, tapas, gastronomy, history, monuments, fiestas.<\/h2>\n
We are in Castilla. Let us tell then medieval stories with a glass of wine in hand.<\/h2>\n
Our visitors also like to hear beautiful stories. Long live storytelling!<\/h2>\n
The Middle Ages ends for several reasons.<\/h2>\n
Printing. Revolution in navigation. Discovery of America.<\/h2>\n
The Silk route disappears. An incentive to find new ways to reach China and India.<\/h2>\n
Division of the world between Spain and Portugal.<\/h2>\n
We talk about wine and this kind of stories on our Madrid Wine Tours.<\/h2>\n