tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66818933617304679822012-02-16T00:21:51.779-06:00Traveling along Lake Michigan, on your way to Sturgeon Bay, is the great little town of Algoma, Wisconsin. Since I was a kid, I thought of Algoma as the gate to Door County, the last town to go through before we would get home. Now I call Algoma home. If you stay with my husband and I at the Belle Isle Inn, you can call Algoma your "Home away from Home" as many of our guests have. In Algoma: Door County's Gate you will find plenty to do, see and experience.innkeeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074563612793646218noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6681893361730467982.post-20768893086416202572008-09-01T08:44:00.007-05:002008-09-01T20:30:03.736-05:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ITQSUnxM5KQ/SLyXB-NSErI/AAAAAAAAAGE/UzPmBsL-lAs/s1600-h/winefest.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241230126486786738" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ITQSUnxM5KQ/SLyXB-NSErI/AAAAAAAAAGE/UzPmBsL-lAs/s320/winefest.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br />The Wet Whistle Wine Fest will be held September 20 &amp; 21, in Algoma, just minutes south of Door County. Algoma's Belle Isle Inn is again, like <a href="http://www.doorcountydailynews.com/events/sponsored_events/shanty_days.htm">Shanty Days</a>, within walking distance of the festivities. This will be the 7th annual event that, just like Algoma Wisconsin's Shanty Days, gets our great little community "hoppin with excitement." Here's some info: Admission is only $6. There will be a grape stomp, specialty foods and wine tasting all day, great music from several bands and a fine art show. A really cool thing will be the <a href="http://www.thecompassnews.org/compass/2003-03-28/03cn0328l5.shtml">Farm Market Kitchen</a> presenting the breakfast smorgasbord "Salute to Sausages" where some of the best Wisconsin Sausage Makers will share their specialties along with Buttermilk and Pumpkin Pancakes. A few of the sponsors are <a href="http://www.vonstiehl.com/">VonStiehl Winery</a>, <a href="http://www.algoma.org/">Algoma Chamber of Commerce</a> and <a href="http://algomamainstreet.org/">Algoma Main Street Program</a>.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6681893361730467982-2076889308641620257?l=doorcountysgate.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>innkeeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074563612793646218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6681893361730467982.post-67184402231953720662008-08-28T21:22:00.034-05:002008-08-28T23:53:45.737-05:00<span style="font-family:georgia;">I Love lighthouses. Growing up in Door County, Sturgeon Bay to be exact, I remember seeing the Sherwood Point Lighthouse from my Nana and Papa's cottage when I was little girl. Sometimes my dad would take us out in the boat and we would anchor right out in front of the grand structure, up close and personal, towering above the little boat. On a dark night, the beacon always let you know which way was home and which way was safe. </span><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239774173563801874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ITQSUnxM5KQ/SLdq2W6JURI/AAAAAAAAAAw/9EDOMWBaS90/s320/488041-R1-005.jpg" border="0" /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Today my parents have their beautiful home on the property that once was my grandparents, and whenever I visit, I look out at the lighthouse, and I get those same feelings. Strength, power and guidance. When my husband and I were married at my parents home three years<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ITQSUnxM5KQ/SLdpvL9c7HI/AAAAAAAAAAo/0-aLY9cvYUQ/s1600-h/house+soft+edge.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239772950854167666" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ITQSUnxM5KQ/SLdpvL9c7HI/AAAAAAAAAAo/0-aLY9cvYUQ/s200/house+soft+edge.jpg" border="0" /></a> ago, our pictures have the Sherwood Point Lighthouse in the background. I LOVE lighthouses. I try to take tours of the lighthouses as often as I can. Because Sherwood Point lighthouse is so close to my heart, and next to the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Algoma</span></span> lighthouse, is the next closest lighthouse to the Belle Isle Inn I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">would</span> like to start my tour with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">SPLH</span></span>. I hope to take a fall trip to the lighthouses but am going to have surgery <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">around</span> that time and may not be able to do it this year. Well, there is always Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall, and there will be another year. But for now... enjoy. And next time you're around <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Algoma</span></span>, stop by the <a href="http://www.belleisleinn.com/">Belle Isle Inn</a> to say hi!</span></p><p></p><p>Great links below!<br /><br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fbelleisleinn%2Falbumid%2F5239783473813426641%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed><br /><br /><a href="http://www.doorcounty.com/docs/Door-County-Lighthouses.pdf">lighthouse map and info on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">pdf</span></span> from the Door County Chamber</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.dcmm.org/lighthouses.html">Door County Maritime Museum</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.allthingsdoorcounty.com/lighthouses/lighthouses.htm">All things Door County</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6681893361730467982-6718440223195372066?l=doorcountysgate.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>innkeeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074563612793646218noreply@blogger.com0