Kelowna Wine Trails inspire
May 13, 2013 / 5:00 am
We hope everyone had a great time at Spring Wine Festival! We hope that the events left you inspired to incorporate wine touring into your weekends and days off. With this in mind, Tourism Kelowna has just delivered our 2013 (hot off the press) Kelowna Wine Trails brochure to households...
Food & wine writers pour into Kelowna
Apr 29, 2013 / 5:00 am
Photo courtesy of the Okanagan Food & Wine Writers' Workshop Okanagan Food & Wine Writers' Workshop participants gather around Helen Kennedy of Arlo's Honey Farm in Kelowna for a farm tour in June 2012. Kelowna, we have some cool customers in...
A race to test your toughness
Apr 15, 2013 / 5:00 am
Remember when you were a kid and set up obstacle courses for yourself and friends? Don’t stare at me blankly, I know you did this too! Some of the best days of the summer were filled with monkey bars, things to jump over, openings to crawl through, and obstacles to run around. Well,...
Farmers’ Market takes it outdoors
Apr 2, 2013 / 5:00 am
Wednesday, April 3 is the day that the Kelowna Farmers’ and Crafters’ Market returns to its outdoor location at the corner of Springfield Road and Dilworth Drive. The market was open throughout the winter on Saturdays in the Parkinsons Recreation Centre, and typically returns to its...
Kelowna golf season 2013 has arrived
Mar 18, 2013 / 5:00 am
I can almost hear your cheers from where I’m sitting as you read this, golfing friends! The time to pull those clubs out of storage is now (and those crazy golf club covers!) Kelowna’s golf courses are about to open for the 2013 season, and at Tourism Kelowna we’ve already...
Kelowna's shining collection
Mar 4, 2013 / 5:00 am
At Tourism Kelowna we have a collection going. Some folks collect stamps, others dig coins… us? We love travel stories that showcase the range of things people can do and see in Kelowna. I say this with my tongue firmly planted in cheek, because it is clear that the outside impressions of...
A guide for all seasons
Feb 18, 2013 / 5:00 am
(Photo: Courtesy of Tourism Kelowna) The cover of the Official 2013 Kelowna & Area Visitors Guide shows brothers Andy and Leo Gebert of St. Hubertus Winery sipping wine in their vineyard. Pick up a copy at the Visitor Centre at 544 Harvey Ave. and participating...
Culinary Championships ignite Kelowna
Feb 4, 2013 / 5:00 am
As the Canadian Culinary Championships, the final competition of Gold Medal Plates, rolls into Kelowna this coming weekend, you can be sure of intense moments: mad ingredient shopping, feverish recipe planning, competitive wine pairing, and ingenious flavor creation. For one victorious chef,...
Free Classical music concert
Jan 21, 2013 / 5:00 am
Here’s a fun way to introduce your budding musician to performing, and an exciting opportunity to enjoy contemporary classical music performed by some acclaimed musicians on February 9 at 7:30 PM. A concert at Summerhill Pyramid Winery in Kelowna will showcase the work of five Okanagan...
Resolving to think local
Jan 7, 2013 / 5:00 am
On behalf of Tourism Kelowna, I want to wish you all the very best for the new year and hope everyone’s holiday season was extra generous, warm, and cozy…. kind of like these wonderful locally made Alpaca socks that came to me over the holidays and are on my feet as we speak, er,...
A beautiful skate
Dec 10, 2012 / 5:00 am
One common aspect that I have always loved about stately older European villages that I’ve had the chance to visit in my lifetime has been the village squares or piazzas, that bustling common ground where everyone feels welcome. In Kelowna, that place (to me) is Stuart Park. In the summer...
Getting in the Christmas Spirit
Nov 26, 2012 / 5:00 am
An incident that happened a few weeks ago made me check and double-check my calendar before writing this column for you today. I was on a mission to find a small household appliance and found myself scouring the aisles at one of our large-scale retailers. I was so focused on finding this item...
Never a bad day for a wine tour
Nov 12, 2012 / 5:00 am
When the mercury drops and colours change in the vineyard to a brilliant gold, winery touring in Kelowna can take on a special charm with fewer crowds and often more personalized wine tasting experiences. Many of our wonderful Kelowna wineries are open year-round, some even feature year-round...
Breakfast of champions
Oct 29, 2012 / 5:00 am
Sometimes the best cure for waking up and realizing that winter is around the corner is to hoist yourself up by the bootstraps despite drizzle, clouds, or chilly weather and treat yourself to breakfast at your favourite Kelowna café. Break with routine. Do not plug in your coffee maker....
Wine Festival is underway
Oct 1, 2012 / 5:00 am
The Okanagan Fall Wine Festival kicked off over the weekend with some fantastic wine tasting events, and there is plenty more to come! Our wine festival offers us over 165 events during a period of 10 days. That’s quite a selection! There are grape stomp events like the one at House of...
One fish, two fish
Sep 17, 2012 / 5:00 am
September brings with it fascinating cycles of nature that you can learn about and enjoy in Kelowna. Among them is the Kokanee Salmon spawning cycle taking place in the Mission Creek. While you can certainly watch the Kokanee spawn from any of the entrances to the Mission Creek in Kelowna, the...
Praising Kelowna's espresso mavens
Sep 3, 2012 / 5:00 am
Kelowna is no stranger to pioneers in the world of wine – think about BC’s first commercial winery, Calona Wines; or Gray Monk who brought the VQA program to BC. So it should come as no surprise that we have pioneers of another drink in or city as well, and that drink is...
Beating the heat in Kelowna
Aug 20, 2012 / 5:00 am
You don’t need me to tell you that it has been really hot lately! And I mean really, really hot. Record-breaking, even! But before anyone even thinks about crying uncle, take a deep breath and repeat after me: summer is glorious. This heat is why we live and vacation here. It’s what...
WildPlay Adventure Park open!
Aug 6, 2012 / 5:00 am
I’ll bet if I polled any of you who like to walk in your neighbourhoods after dinner we would all have one thing in common: seeing kids hanging off trees. It seems to be a fixture of childhood, and so I’d venture to say we never really grow out of appreciating a good climbing tree....
Top shelf cultural evening in Kelowna
Jul 23, 2012 / 5:00 am
From now until August 4 at the Kelowna Actors Studio, the production of My Fair Lady graces the stage. Our Tourism Kelowna team decided to make a night of it last week and we attended the opening night performance, which was flat-out spectacular! From the dinner, to the costumes and set, to the...
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