{"id":6699,"date":"2012-08-12T11:36:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T16:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=6699"},"modified":"2012-08-12T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T16:36:38","slug":"portland-oregons-things-to-do-when-visiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/12\/portland-oregons-things-to-do-when-visiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland, Oregon&#8217;s Things to Do When Visiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/portlandsfarmersmarket1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6702\" title=\"A Farmers' Market in Portland Oregon\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/portlandsfarmersmarket1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Wine Bloggers Conference 2012 in Portland Oregon starts later this week. Attendees will want to make plans to visit some of these free sites available in the Portland area.<\/p>\n<p><em>Portland Farmers Markets:<\/em> Portland offers a number of farmers markets. In September 2011, we visited the largest farmers\u2019 market in Portland. With wines and cheese to taste and a large selection of vegetables and fruits to choose between, it was a delightful experience.<\/p>\n<p>Since we have arrived early in Portland for the conference, we visited a smaller farmer\u2019s market yesterday that was delightfully boutique. An array of \u00a0colorful fruits and vegetables with cheese and wines were available. Everyone is friendly and happy to discuss their products and the weather.<\/p>\n<p><em>Powell\u2019s City of Books:<\/em> Book lovers will enjoy winding their way through this maze of aisles and rooms filled with books both old and new.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/multcolib.org\/about\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Multnomah County Library<\/span><\/a><\/span>:<\/em> This immense library claims to be the oldest library west of the Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosegardenstore.org\/thegardens.cfm\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">International Rose Test Garden<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/em> \u00a0This beautiful garden consists of 4.5 acres with about 10,000 rose bushes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Brewery Tours:<\/em> In case you\u2019ve had enough wine for a few days and want to discover some Oregon breweries, save time to visit some of the local breweries.<\/p>\n<p>One of the great things that visitors to the Wine Bloggers Conference will want to know is that currently Oregon is one of the few states that does not have a sales tax.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your visit to Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, Kathy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Portland, Oregon's Things to Do When Visiting\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=6699\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, Oregon offers farmers&#8217; markets, the International Rose Test Garden, brewery tours, Powell&#8217;s City of Books and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[2678,2677,58,975,2194],"class_list":["post-6699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-brewery-tours","tag-farmers-markets","tag-oregon","tag-portland","tag-wine-bloggers-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6708,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions\/6708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}