Yes, we’re in France, but we’re in the North, not the south where the wine is (yet). Here, the trees are filled with apples, and the Belgians are just a barrels throw north. So Normandie is not about wine, it’s about cider. Lots of it. Cider and apple brandy, called Calvados, which also happens to be the name of the department (county).
But back to Beer Thursday. With the abundance of apples, and the friendliness of the Belgian beermakers nearby, you knew someone, somewhere would get chocolate apple juice in someone else’s peanut butter beer.
Oh, and I dont know why my head got cut off .. it was fine in the original footage.
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Quebec City is celebrating its 400th anniversary this year. The commercials all over tv should be enough to remind you by now.
Jen and I got the message, and went to the place where Quebec City really got it’s roots - Honfleur, France.
It was from this harbour that Samuel de Champlain made his many voyages across the Atlantic to found the posts that became Quebec City.
Now I have never been to Quebec City. It’s a place I want to visit terribly, but I got a pretty decent second place. Almost 400 years to.the.day that Champlain returned to this habour, Jen and I stood at the gatehouse of the Le Vieux Bassin and wished a bonne fetes a Quebec.
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