Terms & Conditions / Reservations Form Travels in Spain with Gerry Dawes: A Taste of Ernest Hemingway’s Spain Tour, July 17 – 28, 2020 With John Hemingway

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Travels in Spain with Gerry Dawes

Terms & Conditions / Reservations Form 

A Taste of Ernest Hemingway’s Spain, July 16 – 27, 2020 With John Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s Grandson. A Customized Adventure Designed, Organized & Led by Spanish Gastronomy, Wine & Culture Expert / Ernest Hemingway Aficionado Writer-Photographer Gerry Dawes

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Reservations: A $1,000 per person deposit, along with a completed and signed Reservation Form, will reserve a place for participants on this program. The balance of the trip is due 90 days prior to departure and must be paid by check.

Cancellation and Refund Policy: Notification of cancellation must be received in writing or by e-mail (to gerrydawes@aol.com).   At the time we receive your written cancellation, the following penalties will apply:

• 90 days to departure:                                            $1,000 deposit*

• 60 days prior to departure:                                   100% - full cost of tour

Tour pricing is based on the number of participants. Please refer to the tour description for pricing.  If the number of tour participants falls below the level required for a trip, you will be offered the option of paying the higher price based on the lowered number of participants.

Tour can also be cancelled due to low enrollment.  Neither GD nor KB  accepts liability for cancellation penalties related to domestic or international airline tickets purchased in conjunction with the tour. 

Trip Cancellation and Interruption Insurance: We strongly advise that all travelers purchase trip cancellation and interruption insurance as coverage against a covered unforeseen emergency that may force you to cancel or leave trip while it is in progress.

Medical Information: Participation in this program requires that you be in good health. It is essential that persons with any medical problems and related dietary restrictions make them known to us well before departure.  

Itinerary Changes & Trip Delay: Itinerary is based on information available at the time of printing and are subject to change. We reserve the right to change a program’s dates, staff, itineraries, or accommodations as conditions warrant. If a trip must be delayed, or the itinerary changed, due to bad weather, road conditions, transportation delays, airline schedules, government intervention, sickness or other contingency for which GD or JS or their agents cannot make provision, the cost of delays or changes is not included.

Limitations of Liability:  GD and KB, its Owners, Agents, and Employees act only as the agent for any transportation carrier, hotel, ground operator, or other suppliers of services connected with this program (“other providers”), and the other providers are solely responsible and liable for providing their respective services.  Neither GD nor KB shall not be held liable for (A) any damage to, or loss of, property or injury to, or death of, persons occasioned directly or indirectly by an act or omission of any other provider, including but not limited to any defect in any aircraft, train or vehicle operated or provided by such other provider, and (B) any loss or damage due to delay, cancellation, or disruption in any manner caused by the laws, regulations, acts or failures to act, demands, orders, or interpositions of any government or any subdivision or agent thereof, or by acts of God, strikes, fire, flood, war, rebellion, terrorism, insurrection, sickness, quarantine, epidemics, theft, or any other cause(s) beyond their control. The participant waives any claim against GD/KB for any such loss, damage, injury, or death.

By registering for the trip, the participant certifies that he/she does not have any mental, physical, or other condition or disability that would create a hazard for him/herself or other participants, nor cause the group to suffer unwarranted delay, i. e., not be able to mention a reasonable pace on walking tours, etc.

GD/KB shall not be liable for any air carrier’s cancellation penalty incurred by the purchase of a nonrefundable ticket to or from the departure city.  

Baggage and personal effects are at all times the sole responsibility of the traveler.

Reasonable changes in the itinerary may be made by the tour operators where deemed advisable for the comfort and well-being of the passengers.

*PayPal payments:

1) Sign into your Paypal account and go to the send money tab;

2) IMPORTANT:  Click on Send Money to a Friend.  This will avoid bigger fees for both of us, because it goes to me personally as the tour organizer, not as a business entity.  You can pay by credit card this way or through your bank account;  

3) Send the payment to gerrydawes@gmail.com, which I have set up for these trips on as a special Paypal account to hold funds just for the trips.

If you have any problems or want a Word.doc copy of this form, let me know at gerrydawes@gmail.com and I will e-mail it to you right away.  

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Travels in Spain With Gerry Dawes

Reservations Form

A Taste of Ernest Hemingway’s Spain, July 16 – 27, 2020 With John Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s Grandson. A Customized Adventure Designed, Organized & Led by Spanish Gastronomy, Wine & Culture Expert / Ernest Hemingway Aficionado Writer-Photographer Gerry Dawes 

NAME(S)____________________________________GENDER (M/F)_____________

NAME(S)____________________________________GENDER (M/F)_____________

STREET ADDRESS______________________________________________________

CITY/STATE/ZIP CODE_________________________________________________

HOME PHONE_________________MOBILE PHONE:__________________                                

E-MAIL________________________________________________________________

SINGLE TRAVELERS ONLY (Please indicate):

I plan to share accommodations with ________________________________________

or ___            I’d like to know about possible roommates.  

or ___            I do not want to share accommodations.

PAYMENT:

Here is my deposit of $_______    ($1,000 per person) for ________ place(s). 

Enclosed is my check (make payable to Gerald E. Dawes). For Zelle payment transfers, email me at gerrydawes@aol.com or for PayPal debit or credit card payments, please see below.*

or  Charge my deposit of $1039.30 to my Visa  __  MasterCard __  AMEX__

(3.9% + .30 cents added to each credit card payment for processing.)

card#	________________________________	Expiration Date:______
Security Code:___________________________

 authorized cardholder signature ________________________________________

date:_____________________

                       

Mail completed form to:

Gerry Dawes

370 Cushman Road

Patterson, NY 12563   Telephone:  1 -914-414-6982

Or e-mail filled-out form attached to:  gerrydawes@gmail.com

I/We have read the Terms and Conditions for this program and agree to them.

Signature ________________________________________________________________________

If you have any problems or want a Word.doc copy of this form, let me know at gerrydawes@gmail.com and I will e-mail it to you right away. 

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*PayPal payments:

1) Sign into your Paypal account and go to the send money tab;

2) IMPORTANT:  Click on Send Money to a Friend.  This will avoid bigger fees for both of us, because it goes to me personally as the tour organizer, not as a business entity.  You can pay by credit card this way or through your bank account; 

3) Send the payment to gerrydawes@gmail.com, which I have set up for these trips on as a special Paypal account to hold funds just for the trips.

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Shall deeds of Caesar or Napoleon ring   

More true than Don Quixote's vapouring?

Hath winged Pegasus more nobly trod

Than Rocinante stumbling up to God?

 

Poem by Archer M. Huntington inscribed under the Don Quixote on his horse Rocinante bas-relief sculpture by his wife, Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington, in the courtyard of the Hispanic Society of America’s incredible museum at 613 W. 155th

Street, New York City.

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Gerry Dawes

"My good friend Gerry Dawes, the unbridled Spanish food and wine enthusiast cum expert whose writing, photography, and countless crisscrossings of the peninsula have done the most to introduce Americans—and especially American food professionals—to my country's culinary life." -- Chef-restaurateur-humanitarian José Andrés, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and Oscar Presenter 2019

Gerry Dawes was the Producer and Program Host of Gerry Dawes & Friends, a weekly radio progam on Pawling Public Radio in Pawling, NY.

Dawes was awarded Spain's prestigious Premio Nacional de Gastronomía (National Gastronomy Award) in 2003. He writes and speaks frequently on Spanish wine and gastronomy and leads gastronomy, wine and cultural tours to Spain. He was a finalist for the 2001 James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award for Best Magazine Writing on Wine, won The Cava Institute's First Prize for Journalism for his article on cava in 2004, was awarded the CineGourLand “Cinéfilos y Gourmets” (Cinephiles & Gourmets) prize in 2009 in Getxo (Vizcaya) and received the 2009 Association of Food Journalists Second Prize for Best Food Feature in a Magazine for his Food Arts article, a piece about Catalan star chef, Ferran Adrià.

In December, 2009, Dawes was awarded the Food Arts Silver Spoon Award in a profile written by José Andrés. 

". . . That we were the first to introduce American readers to Ferran Adrià in 1997 and have ever since continued to bring you a blow-by-blow narrative of Spain's riveting ferment is chiefly due to our Spanish correspondent, Gerry "Mr. Spain" Dawes, the messianic wine and food journalist raised in Southern Illinois and possessor of a self-accumulated doctorate in the Spanish table. Gerry once again brings us up to the very minute. . ." - - Michael & Ariane Batterberry, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher and Founding Editor/Publisher, Food Arts, October 2009.

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Gerry Dawes can be reached at gerrydawes@aol.com; Alternate e-mail (use only if your e-mail to AOL is rejected): gerrydawes@gmail.com

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