Surf’s Up In Morocco
by Brian Clark | September 30, 2020 | FEATURED | 0 Comments
England’s Petersham Nurseries Café: Michelin Worthy Dining in a Nursery.
by Ron and Mary James | September 20, 2020 | FEATURED | 0 Comments
India’s Exotic Pushkar Camel Fair
by Ron and Mary James | September 19, 2020 | FEATURED | 0 Comments
Breathtaking Blend: Tokara Wine Estate
by Mary James | August 29, 2020 | FEATURED | 0 Comments
Postcards from Vietnam
by John Muncie and Jody Jaffe | August 29, 2020 | FEATURED | 0 Comments
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Oregon’s Rogue River a fun, family friendly & Wild
by Brian Clark
With its soothing siren call, the Rogue River draws me back every few years to kayak its frolicking rapids, revel in it verdant canyons, hike up its side creeks and sleep on its welcoming beaches. I’m not alone in treasuring this delightful, family friendly whitewater...
MAKING MIND BLOWING PAELLA COOKING SCHOOL VALENCIA
by Ron James
By Ron James For the last three decades, Mary and I have searched for great paella, maybe even the best paella in the world. We believe we found it in Valencia – not surprising since this city is the birthplace of the famous rice...
ADVENTURE ON THE KASBAH TRAIL
by Kitty Morse
BY KITTY MORSE I first travelled as a child with my parents along Morocco”s mythical Kasbah Trail, the narrow ribbon of asphalt that links a string of crenelated kasbahs (fortified Berber villages) in the shadow of the snow-capped High Atlas Mountains. In the...
Breathtaking Blend: Tokara Wine Estate
Celebrating German Christmas Markets
The Corona Corridore
Lanzarote: Spain’s Out of this World Island
Steam Dreams: a Reality for Railway Fans in Wales
Postcards from John & Jody : Austin, Texas
The French Connection: a Day in Provence
NORWAY: FANTASTIC FJORDS, HISTORIC VILLAGES & SCRUMPTIOUS SEAFOOD
Wadi Rum: Where Camels & Martians Roam
Our destination was Wadi Rum, a nearly 300-square mile patch of stark, very Martian-like desert in southern Jordan. T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, called Wadi Rum “vast, echoing and God-like.” And the description fits its long desert valleys punctuated by spectacular red sandstone mesas and peaks that change colors with the passing of the moon and sun. It’s both amazingly beautiful and a little spooky.
Glamis Castle: Scotland’s Most Haunted Residence
Walla Walla ‘America’s Best Wine Region
by News Editor | August 23, 2020 | NEWS | 0 Comments
Enchanted Princess Officially Joins Princess Cruises Fleet
by News Editor | September 30, 2020 | NEWS | 0 Comments
San Miguel de Allende’s New Program to Attract Tourists
by News Editor | September 28, 2020 | NEWS | 0 Comments
CDC Issues Covid19 Holiday Travel Guidlines
by News Editor | September 24, 2020 | NEWS | 0 Comments
Oaxaca, Mexico, is No. 1 City in Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards
by News Editor | August 23, 2020 | NEWS | 0 Comments
Ready for a Road Trip? Here’s COVID-19 Pandemic Travel Restrictions By State
by News Editor | September 8, 2020 | NEWS | 0 Comments
Costa Crociere suspends 2020-2021 season in South America
by News Editor | September 7, 2020 | NEWS | 0 Comments
Belize Opens for American Tourism
by News Editor | October 2, 2020 | NEWS | 0 Comments
Sandals Unveils New Design Plans, Marking A New Era Of Innovation
by News Editor | September 7, 2020 | NEWS | 0 Comments
Belgium Airport Added to US Preclearance Facilities
by News Editor | September 30, 2020 | NEWS | 0 Comments
WINE DINE & TRAVEL’S FAVORITE DESTINATION ACCOMODATIONS
The Inn at Rancho Santa Fe: Country Comfort at a Timeless Retreat
by Ron and Mary James | September 19, 2020 | ACCOMODATIONS | 0 Comments
Auberge Saint-Antoine: where history meets hospitality
by Ron and Mary James | September 10, 2020 | ACCOMODATIONS | 0 Comments
The Grove Park Inn
by John Muncie and Jody Jaffe | September 10, 2020 | ACCOMODATIONS | 0 Comments
THE ARCH LONDON
by Ron and Mary James | September 6, 2020 | ACCOMODATIONS | 0 Comments
INTRODUCING WINE DINE & TRAVEL’S YOUTUBE CHANNEL
Meet Wine Dine & Travel Magazine’s newest YouTube channel. The video series, produced by our team of veteran travel writers as they explore the world. Many of our Wine Dine & Travel YouTube videos are integrated into the new interactive editions of the magazine.
EXPLORE THE WORLD
READ ANY OF OUR LASTEST EDITIONS BELOW AND WE THINK YOU’LL AGREE WITH THOUSANDS OF OTHER TRAVEL ENTHUSIASTS THAT WINE DINE & TRAVEL MAGAZINE IS NOT ONLY THE “BEST FREE MAGAZINE IN THE WORLD.” BUT ONE OF THE GREAT TRAVEL MAGAZINES PERIOD.

WINE DINE & TRAVEL AWARDS
FIRST PLACE FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL FEATURE 2019
26 first place awards in 2018-19. Since 2013, our first year, Wine Dine & Travel has earned nearly a hundred awards for everything that makes a great magazine. We’ve won top awards in every key category, including editorial, design, humor, photography, and columns. We’re proud we continue to receive these accolades year in and out from the most respected journalism organizations in the nation, including the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of American Travel Writers.

WINE DINE & TRAVEL AWARDS
FIRST PLACE FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL FEATURE (SATWA) 2019
26 first place awards in 2018-19. Since 2013, our first year, Wine Dine & Travel has earned nearly a hundred awards for everything that makes a great magazine. We’ve won top awards in every key category, including editorial, design, humor, photography, and columns. We’re proud we continue to receive these accolades year in and out from the most respected journalism organizations in the nation, including the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of American Travel Writers.

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FIRST PLACE FOR DOMESTIC TRAVEL FEATURE 2019
26 first place awards in 2018-19. Since 2013, our first year, Wine Dine & Travel has earned nearly a hundred awards for everything that makes a great magazine. We’ve won top awards in every key category, including editorial, design, humor, photography, and columns. We’re proud we continue to receive these accolades year in and out from the most respected journalism organizations in the nation, including the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of American Travel Writers.

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FIRST PLACE FOR FEATURE STORY LAYOUT 2019
26 first place awards in 2018-19. Since 2013, our first year, Wine Dine & Travel has earned nearly a hundred awards for everything that makes a great magazine. We’ve won top awards in every key category, including editorial, design, humor, photography, and columns. We’re proud we continue to receive these accolades year in and out from the most respected journalism organizations in the nation, including the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of American Travel Writers.

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FIRST PLACE MAGAZINE FOOD STORY 2019
26 first place awards in 2018-19. Since 2013, our first year, Wine Dine & Travel has earned nearly a hundred awards for everything that makes a great magazine. We’ve won top awards in every key category, including editorial, design, humor, photography, and columns. We’re proud we continue to receive these accolades year in and out from the most respected journalism organizations in the nation, including the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of American Travel Writers.

WINE DINE & TRAVEL AWARDS
BEST OF SHOW/FIRST PLACE TRAVEL STORY 2018
26 first place awards in 2018-19. Since 2013, our first year, Wine Dine & Travel has earned nearly a hundred awards for everything that makes a great magazine. We’ve won top awards in every key category, including editorial, design, humor, photography, and columns. We’re proud we continue to receive these accolades year in and out from the most respected journalism organizations in the nation, including the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of American Travel Writers.
WDT INTERACTIVE
The future of THE TRAVEL magazine
Enjoy the traditional magazine experience coupled with entertaining and informational video, audio and slide shows. Watch the video at the right to see how it works. Just click the interactive magazines below to enjoy the future right now.
MEET THE WINE DINE AND TRAVEL WRITING TEAM

Mary james
Mary Hellman James is an award-winning San Diego journalist and editor. After a 29-year-career with The San Diego Union-Tribune, she has been a freelance garden writer and a columnist for San Diego Home-Garden/Lifestyles magazine and co-publisher and editor of Wine Dine & Travel Magazine.

Ron James
Ron James is the “wine, food and travel guy.” He is a national award-winning print and online journalist, graphic designer, television producer and radio personality. The native Californians nationally syndicated wine and food columns have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world. Ron is founder, editor and publisher of Wine Dine & Travel Magazine.

Maribeth Mellin
Maribeth Mellin is an award-winning journalist whose travel articles have appeared in Endless Vacation Magazine, U-T San Diego and Dallas Morning News among others. She also travels and writes for several websites including CNN Travel, Concierge.com and Zagat, and has authored travel books on Peru, Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, Hawaii and California.

Alison Darosa
Alison DaRosa is a six-time winner of the Lowell Thomas Gold Award for travel writing, the most prestigious prize in travel journalism. She served 15 years as Travel Editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune and was the award-winning editor of the San Diego News Network Travel Page. Alisonwrites a monthly Travel Deals column for the San Diego Union-Tribune and is a regular freelance contributor to the travel sections of the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and AOL Travel. Learn more about Alison on her website, www.AlisdaRosa.com.

John Muncie and jody Jaffe
Jody and John are award-winning journalists and novelists. John is a Lowell Thomas Award-Winner and was feature editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune, arts editor of The Baltimore Sun and writer-editor-columnist for the travel department of The Los Angeles Times. Jody was a journalist at the Charlotte Observer, where she was on a team that won the Pulitzer Prize. Her articles have been published in many publications including The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. They live on a farm in Lexington, Virginia.

Sharon larsen
Sharon Whitley Larsen’s work has appeared in many major publications, including Reader’s Digest (and 19 international issues), Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and Los Angeles Times Magazine. She’s the author of British Travel Tidbits (2017) and Travel Tidbits (2018), published by Sanbun Publishers in New Delhi. Sharon also had a two-year travel column “Travel Tidbits” in the Union Jack newspaper. Her favorite topic is travel (favorite destination London)..

carl larsen
Carl H. Larsen is a veteran journalist based in San Diego. He now focuses on travel writing, and is summoned to pull out his notebook whenever there’s the plaintive cry of a steam locomotive nearby. In San Diego, he is a college-extension instructor who has led courses on the Titanic and the popular TV series “Downton Abbey.”

Brian Clark
Brian Clark is a Madison, Wisconsin-based writer and photographer who likes to ski, kayak, scuba dive, bicycle and sail as often he can. A former staff writer for The San Diego Union-Tribune, he now contributes to a number of publications.

Amy Laughinghouse
London-based writer and photographer Amy Laughinghouse has attempted to overcome her fears (and sometimes basic common sense) through her adventures in 30 countries around the world. She dishes on the perks and perils of globetrotting for publications like LonelyPlanet.com, AAA Journey Magazine, Virtuoso Life, and The Dallas Morning News. Her travel tales can also be found on her website, www.amylaughinghouse.com.

Kitty morse
Kitty Morse is a Casablanca-born food and travel writer, speaker, and author of 11 cookbooks, five of them on the cuisine of her native Morocco. Her memoir, Mint Tea and Minarets: a banquet of Moroccan memories, and its French translation, Le Riad au Bord de l’Oued, are both recipients of a Gourmand World Award. https://www.kittymorse.com.

Margie Goldsmith
Margie Goldsmith is a NYC-based author, writer and photographer who has explored 140 countries on seven continents. She has won 85 awards including the prestigious Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Award. She has written over 1,000 articles for Robb Report, Travel + Leisure, Business Jet Traveler, American Way, Hemispheres, Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail.

Priscilla Lister
Priscilla Lister is a longtime journalist in her native San Diego. She has covered many subjects over the years, but travel is her favorite. Her work, including photography, has appeared in The San Diego Union-Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Alaska Airlines’ magazine and numerous other publications throughout the U.S. and Canada. She is the author of “Take a Hike: San Diego County,” a comprehensive hiking guide to 260 trails in amazing San Diego County.

Diane Covington-Carter
Diane worked for the Ojai Valley news before becoming a free-lance journalist. Her work has appeared in many magazines including Hemispheres, Reader’s Digest, The Sun, More Magazine, Sierra Alive. She has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Napa Valley Register, Sacramento Bee, the San Diego Union Tribune, among other newspapers. She is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers.