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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: The trip to France, Germany and Switzerland
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On 2024-09-10 15:54, Tom Elam wrote:
>>>
>>> Riquewihr is similar and was the either/or choice, as we also visited 
>>> Srasbourg too.
>>>
>>> There's a lot of such small towns w/wineries in the Alsace region; I 
>>> think we have a Karen Brown guidebook which has a couple of self- 
>>> driving routes that's on the "to do" list .. my basic conclusion is 
>>> that if one wants to get to such small villages, it is better done 
>>> with a rental car than by mass transit as we had done.
>>
>>
>> Forgot to mention that I've looked into the "ship some home" too.
>>
>> The problem I ran into are that State regulations on shipping of 
>> alcohol vary, and NJ is a "nope!" state.
>>
>> For hand-carrying, the last time that I can recall packing some 750ml 
>> wine bottles into checked baggage was from Budapest, and their 
>> security folk (at least I hope it was them!) either didn't have TSA 
>> keys, or didn't care:  they just cut all the locks off.
>>
>>
>> -hh
>>
>>
>>
> Indiana is OK since about 5 years back. We carry wine home in checked 
> bags from Europe every trip, never had an issue. The record is 7 bottles 
> spread across 3 check bags. We do not lock our bags. You just reminded 
> me why. Those are flimsy locks that do no real good.

And you're paying the tax and duty on those bottles, I assume.

:-)