We got up Wednesday morning after our 9 hour stay at the hotel in New Hampshire (not to be confused with the John Irving book of a similar name) and headed to breakfast. We found a charming little New England spot and had a unique breakfast.
OK, we actually went to Panera. But it was still good and hit the spot.
We took off north through NH and made our first random beer stop at a little brewpub called the Flying Goose. It was in New London, NH and had a respectable list of beers. We got the sampler, and the place smelled great - we had just enjoyed our amazing Panera experience so didn't eat, but the beer was good. Chris picked a Berline Weisse for one of the beers and he said it was excellent. It tasted like vinegar mixed with pee, but I trust that it was to style.
We then stopped at Poverty Lane Orchards & Farnum Hill Ciders where we sampled some heirloom apples and some cider. The apples were FUN-KEE. But they were amazing! Some had weird, almost nutty flavors, and some were had weird textures. We bought a couple of three different varieties...there were all different sizes, as you can see. I wish we could have gotten a big bag and somehow gotten them home to make a cool pie. Of course, we also got two bottles of cider. Amazing how I can figure out how to get that home.
We then tried to go to a dairy/creamery, and drove our bitchin' mini van up a long, dirt road for about 3 miles. When we got there it was like someone's house, and I didn't feel like I should just jaunt up to the door and say, "Can we taste your cheese??" So we wound our way back down the scary road and went to the Grafton Village Cheese Store - pretty standard. But we bought some cheese. We also got some meat sticks from the Lawrence's Smoke Shop and Country Store.
After screeching off of the highway once we saw it, we had a 10 minute stop at the Vermont Country Store (where I spent $7 on a milk chocolate/cashew patty) we landed at Harpoon Brewing for a sampler and some snacks. It took us another hour and a half to finally land in Burlington at our hotel.
This completes the first boring post and blow by blow of our trip yesterday...more blogs later about our anniversary dinner and covered bridge!
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