A travel writer falls in love and goes to live on a giant rock. 🗣️🍷

RT's on CBS news in the morning! You're about to know a lot more about Gibraltar. And we got a new website.

Watch Rose Thomas on CBS News

Rose Thomas was interviewed by CBS news as part of their segment on Dry January. The story will air on www.cbsnews.com/live/ around 8 am EST. Two of RT’s former podcast guests, Sam Bail (S2E11) and Abe Zarate (S3E8), were interviewed as well. (The segment was bumped last weekend due to the tragic L.A. fires, so there’s no guarantee that the piece will run, but we’re getting up early to watch for it, anyway.)

Routine Dry January coverage has taken on a new urgency with the new announcements from the Surgeon General that you have probably heard about. RT shares a few opinions about how the wine industry should not respond to this health news in the podcast episode with Zarate, aka The Sober Somm. She’s got more thoughts on how the industry should respond fermenting in the tank, so stay tuned for more on this topic.

And we want to hear from you! Do you have thoughts and feelings about Dry January and the Surgeon General’s announcement that he’d like to put cancer warnings on alcohol labels? Respond to this email and tell us all about it.

New Modo di Bere website!

The timing of this CBS news story coincides with a major zhuzh for mododibere.com. Our designer, Michael Sugarman, created a new web page for the podcast, and it’s so pretty! Definitely go look at it, and peruse the web version of this magazine while you’re there. Were there some issues that you missed?

Gibraltar’s Local Drinks and Local Language

Penelope, who blogs about travel at theflyawaygirl.com, came on the podcast this week with a thrilling and educational tour of Gibraltar. She covers the history of the peninsula, including the origin myth of why Gibraltar’s macaques—little monkeys—are only found on the north side of the strait. (Spoiler: it was Hercules.)

Penelope share several phrases in Gibraltar’s local language, Llanito, and recommends local drinks both hard and soft. She describes scenic sites above and below this British Overseas Territory that’s built on a giant limestone rock.

The residents and workers on this unique, 6.8km territory have a much different time going back and forth from Gibraltar to Spain after Brexit. Penelope discusses those political factors as well as the reasons she avoids the term “influencer.”

She also shares the story of how a jet-setting writer fell in love and moved to Gibraltar, and how taking photos is part of how she sees the world without being able to internally visualize it: Penelope has aphantasia, the inability to form a picture in her mind.

Don’t miss this lovely episode, and if you have a moment, please send it to a friend.
Here’s the link to Penelope’s episode.

It would be great to get some more listeners for the podcast to help this high quality program become more attractive to potential sponsors. Even if you haven’t become a paid supporter on Patreon yet, it helps us immensely to simply spread the word.

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