European Wine Bloggers Conference<\/a> in Izmir in Turkey in November? I have.<\/p>\nI started to look at the planning for the event (prompted by the ominous message that registration for the add-on events would start at a certain date at 1900 hours GMT sharp; sounded like either military planning or as if they are expecting an avalanche of inscriptions).<\/p>\n
Perhaps you too have started to look at how you should plan your trip. There are pre-trips, post-trips, seminars, conference programs (well, actually, there is no conference program at all published), dinners etc etc. I found it quite a challenge to get a good overview of how it is all planned. It almost feels as if the information is designed so as not to give you any concise information of what the whole event looks like. So I decided to do one for myself.<\/p>\n
And as a public service I thought my overview might be useful also for other people, if anyone else is as totally confused as I am.<\/p>\n
Once you have figured out what you want to do, then you have also to figure out how to get there.<\/p>\n
Update<\/strong>: Personally, when I go on this kind of thing I want to make it as productive and useful as I can. It takes a lot of time so getting as much out of it is important. So my choice for the EWBC is:<\/em><\/p>\n\nPre-trip to Canakkale & Tekirdag <\/em><\/li>\nThere’s a rumour of a dinner in Istanbul on Nov 7 too that I’m likely to go to<\/em><\/li>\nThe conference<\/em><\/li>\nSunday full day trip to Ephesus<\/em><\/li>\nPost-trip 3 to Cappadocia<\/em><\/li>\nPerhaps something in Istanbul after that, but since the details of the end of the post trip is uncertain I am not sure<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOverall planning of the EWBC<\/h2>\nPre-trips<\/h3>\n See further down.<\/p>\n
Thursday, November 8<\/h3>\n\nBYOB Dinner<\/strong>, Bring Your Own Bottle Dinner, Izmir, starting 19.00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nFriday, November 9<\/h3>\n\nConference<\/strong> (program still unknown as of time of writing )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThere will be some guest speakers (speaking themes unknown), a wine exhibition, wine workshops, tastings, \u201ctechnology\u201d workshops, seminars, food. But what, when and how is not yet known.<\/p>\n
Saturday, November 10<\/h3>\n\nConference<\/strong> (program still unknown as of time of writing)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSunday, November 11<\/h3>\n Sunday wine trips:<\/strong><\/p>\n\nSunday Vineyard Trip to Izmir, half day<\/li>\n Sunday Vineyard Trip to Ephesus, full day<\/li>\n unknown location \u2013 unknown duration<\/li>\n perhaps more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAlternatively:<\/strong><\/p>\n\nROI on Social Media workshop<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSunday November 11 or Monday November 12<\/strong><\/p>\nSelection of post-trips. See below.<\/p>\nEuropean Wine Bloggers Conference Map, This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license from WorldofMaps.net. You are free to use and change it but it requires to remain under the same or similar license.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nPre-Trips<\/h2>\nPre trip #0 (?)<\/h3>\n Istanbul<\/strong>: \u201cA half day city walk and dinner will be announced in the future.\u201d Not clear if this will be on the Wednesday or the Thursday.<\/p>\nNo information available on this at the time of writing (June)<\/p>\n
Pre-Trip: \u00c7anakkale & Tekirdag, November 6-7<\/h3>\n South-west of Istanbul<\/p>\n
Tuesday, November 6<\/strong><\/p>\n\nDrive from Istanbul to \u00a0\u00c7anakkale-Suvla Vineyard<\/strong><\/li>\nBarbecue lunch at the vineyard<\/li>\n War memorials<\/strong> from the Gallipoli war<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWednesday, November 7<\/strong><\/p>\n\nGulor Winery<\/strong> (owned by G\u00fcler Sabanci) (~135 km from Tekirdag)<\/li>\nLunch in Tekirdag (135 km from Istanbul)<\/li>\n Doluca Winery<\/strong><\/li>\nDrive back to Istanbul<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPost-Trips<\/h2>\nPost Trip #1: Manisa & Denizli, November 11-13<\/h3>\n East of Izmir.<\/p>\n
Important: this starts on the Sunday!<\/p>\n
Sunday, November 11<\/strong><\/p>\n\nBus to Selendi<\/li>\n Cistern Vineyard<\/strong><\/li>\nSelendi Winery Akhisar<\/strong><\/li>\nhot springs and its ancient Lydia ancestry<\/li>\n \u201ca fabulously delicious dinner\u201d at the hotel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nMonday, November 12<\/strong><\/p>\n\nAcropolis, Temple of Artemis, Gymnasium-Bathhouse, Synagogue<\/li>\n Kavaklidere Winery<\/strong> for a tour and lunch<\/li>\nwinery visit to Pamukkale Vineyard<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTuesday, November 13<\/strong><\/p>\n\nHierapolis near Denizli, The \u201cHoly City\u201d (Apollon Temple, Middle Age (Selcuklu) Fortress, Greek Theater, Necropolis\u2026<\/li>\n Lunch in a local restaurant<\/li>\n Drive to Izmir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nEWBC 2012 Post Trip #2: Elazig, November 11-12<\/h3>\n Eastern Turkey.<\/p>\n
Important: this starts on the Sunday!<\/p>\n
Sunday, November 11<\/strong><\/p>\n\nPlane to Elazig and transfer by bus to Harput<\/li>\n Ulu Mosque, the Castle of Harput, the Cave of Buzluk and Assyrian churches.<\/li>\n city center of Elazig, traditional Bazaar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nMonday, November 12<\/strong><\/p>\n\nKayra Elazig Vineyard<\/li>\n Lunch<\/li>\n To the Elazig Airport, where you will catch a plane to Ankara<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nEWBC 2012 Post Trip #3 \u2013 Cappadocia, November 12-14<\/h3>\n Central Turkey, Central Anatolia<\/p>\n
Monday, November 12, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n\nflight to Nevsehir (Cappadocia Airport)<\/li>\n Goreme National Park<\/li>\n Lunch in the Pigeon Valley<\/li>\n Zelve valley (abandoned ruin valley)<\/li>\n Kavaklidere Cotes D\u2019Avanos Winery<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTuesday, November 13<\/strong><\/p>\n\nKocabag Cappadocian Wines<\/strong> is a family owned wine producer<\/li>\nguided visit of the Pigeon Valley<\/li>\n Goreme Open Air Museum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWednesday, November 14<\/strong><\/p>\n\nOptional add-on very early balloon flight<\/li>\n morning flight will head to Istanbul<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nEWBC 2012 Post Trip #4: Georgia, November 12-16<\/h3>\n Monday November 12<\/strong><\/p>\n\nFlights will leave from Izmir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTuesday November 13<\/strong><\/p>\n\n??<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWednesday November 14<\/strong><\/p>\n\n??<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThursday November 15<\/strong><\/p>\n\n??<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nFriday November 16<\/strong><\/p>\n\nFlight return to Istanbul<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAnd here’s some feedback from a previous #EWBC: ”European Wine Bloggers Conference. How was it for you? \u2013 BKWine TV”<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My personal overview of the schedule and program for the EWBC conference, pre-, and post-trips in November Have you signed up for the European Wine Bloggers Conference in Izmir in Turkey in November? I have. I started to look at the planning for the event (prompted by the ominous message that registration for the add-on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[734,312,699,743,1504],"class_list":["post-11246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more","tag-blogs","tag-ewbc","tag-internet","tag-social-media","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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