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    Sonoma County - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides
    Sonoma County - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides
    Sonoma County - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides
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    Sonoma County - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides

    By Andrew Delaplaine

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    A complete guide for everything you need to experience a full weekend in the Sonoma Valley, the Napa Valley’s often underrated neighbor. It was here that winemaking first got its start. Come see why.  
     

    “We had the best time exploring Sonoma with this handy guidebook. We’ve used it two years in a row and found new listings each time.”

    -–Jerry C., Chattanooga


    =LODGINGS, variously priced  

    =RESTAURANTS, both upmarket & those on a budget
     

    =SPAS.  That’s right, Napa doesn’t have a chokehold on Spas

    =ATTRACTIONS and tours
     

    =Selected wineries chosen specially by Delaplaine, who produces his own wine from grapes partially selected from Sonoma.  

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGramercy Park Press
    Release dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781536584110
    Sonoma County - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide: Long Weekend Guides
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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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      Sonoma County - The Delaplaine 2017 Long Weekend Guide - Andrew Delaplaine

      TABLES OF CONTENTS

      Chapter 1

      WHY SONOMA COUNTY?

      Chapter 2

      GETTING ABOUT

      Chapter 3

      WHERE TO STAY

      Chapter 4

      WHERE TO EAT

      Chapter 5

      WINERIES

      Chapter 6

      WHAT TO DO

      Chapter 7

      NIGHTLIFE

      Chapter 8

      SHOPPING & SERVICES

      Chapter 9

      SPAS

      OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR

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      Chapter 1

      WHY

      SONOMA COUNTY?

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      Sonoma is to Napa what Chicago is to New York. The Second City.

      But you can’t look down your nose at Sonoma any more than you can Chicago, which couldn’t be more different from New York if it tried.

      Similarly, Sonoma offers its own wonderful experiences apart from the high-powered, high-end, deluxe experiences you find in the Napa Valley.

      As I said in my book on Napa, 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 bearing the Carneros appellation using grapes from both Napa and Sonoma), so I know a little bit about it.

      The two counties are quite different in layout and attitude. Though Napa is more famous than Sonoma, winemaking actually began in Sonoma (with the Franciscan monks at Sonoma Mission who made wine in 1823 for religious ceremonies) a whole generation before vineyards were planted in the 35-mile long Napa Valley, which is almost twice as big as Sonoma. And while vineyards line Napa from one end to the other, in Sonoma there still are fields where vineyards have not been planted. More breathing room, if you will.

      The oldest commercial winery in California is acknowledged to be Buena Vista, set up in the 1850s by one Agoston Haraszthy, a Hungarian with aristocratic pretentions.

      While Napa is narrow and more confined, in Sonoma, the land extends out from the Russian River far and wide, giving you a much more expansive sensation.

      Wine lovers didn’t really begin flocking to this area until the 1980s, and the lodgings at the time were limited to a few inns and some B&Bs.

      But while lodgings in the Napa Valley have been upgraded to match the most luxurious in the world, over here in Sonoma, you’ll find things a lot less fancy. The corporatization of Napa is not something you see here.

      I strongly urge you to come here in the off-season, especially if

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