The West End News Food & Travel section. Local reviewer James Fereira visits your favorite local eateries and shares all the good with a little snark. And West End independent travel agent Nancy Dorrans takes readers around the world in search of adventure.
‘Trail folks are the nicest people I think you can meet…’ By Nancy Dorrans Recently a friend from New Hampshire shared a post from Representative Timothy Lang from Belknap, New H... Read more
Layne’s Wine Gig HELP…HELP WANTED By Layne V. Witherell This edition of Layne’s Wine Gig is the culmination of several things. First, I have seen, experienced, and done in forty-... Read more
Layne’s Wine Gig THREE WINE LISTS By Layne V. Witherell A wine list can be as small as a single postcard folded into a plastic holder on a restaurant table. Or it could be the Bern’s T... Read more
The rest of the Quest… (Continued from August 2021 print edition) Part 2 of 2: A twenty-year quest to hike all fourteen of the Maine 4000 footers By Nancy Dorrans My first time up to Baxter... Read more
By Nancy Dorrans People keep asking me about my travel business. Is business picking up? Where is your first trip going to be? What is a vax-i-ca-tion? Why do we need to get tested to come b... Read more
Layne’s Wine Gig OMG CHARDONNAY “Brands are for cereal and toilet paper. Not wine.” -Andrew Jefford, acclaimed British wine writer OMG Chardonnay! There are brands of chardonnay, but t... Read more
A California startup that taught a computer to ‘taste’ wine is using the technology to help winemakers improve their products and attract new customers. – CNN Business, May... Read more
By Nancy Dorrans When travel stalled or more likely came to a screeching halt at the start of this pandemic, Adventure Marketplace was mostly hibernating. I remained positive and... Read more
By Nancy Dorrans In the spring of 2017, a small Adventure Marketplace group began an almost three-week journey of Namibia and Botswana. There were seven of us: my aunt Henrietta and her best... Read more
