Category: Beer

  • Back after our beautiful drive from Calgary to Gibsons, BC through the Rocky Mountains.  What a beautiful drive.  We live in an astounding place, this country of ours.  One of our breweries, Molson’s (owned by Coors now, I think) has put together a great set of marketing tools, usually involving beer coolers and a uniquely…

  • Haven’t caught up on the beers I’ve sampled in a while.  Lets give it a go. First up, a great couple of summer beers, a la my deck.  Two great American “micro-breweries”.  I italicize as both are bit bigger than that now, but both still have a great product.  Brooklyn Lager and Samuel Adams Summer…

  • The challenge this week is love.  So much to think about.  I love travel, sailing, Lori, my sons, blogging, family.  After some heavy thought, I decided that the winning category is beer.  The photo that best describes beer is these shots I took in Bruges, Belgium.  Every beer brewed in Belgium, and it’s special glass,…

  •   Today’s topic is parking at doughnut shops.    

  • In a global society that the Earth is becoming, I feel it is time to explain what Canadians are.  This will be especially helpful to, well, everyone, because we are kind of invisible.  Once you have seen this series of videos, you will be experts on a lot of things Canadian. Our first foray will…

  • Question Of The Day Can you get cavities in your dentures if you use too much artificial sweetener? Arundel Castle Overlooking the River Arun in West Sussex is Arundel Castle.  In our adventure in England in 2008, we visited this historic castle.  A very imposing place and home to the Duke of Norfolk.  Before we…

  • Lori and I have begun, what we believe is, a good habit.  We tend to go somewhere for our anniversary.  This works well as we married on Thanksgiving (Canadian) weekend, which allows us the luxury of a long weekend, with decent weather and out of “high” season for travelling.  This was one of those trips…

  • We spent a day and a half in Brugges back in 2008.  What inspired us to go there?  The first reason, its reputation as the Venice of the north, second, the recommendations of Lori’s cousins in England, and third, the movie “In Brugges”.  We went to see the movie during the planning stages of the…