flickering pictures

Thanks for putting up with two days of slow posting — we got back to town yesterday after two glorious days and nights of fine dining and rural relaxation, and I’m still so full of good food that I can hardly move, let alone write.

If you’re not far from southern Quebec and are looking to spend a weekend shedding stress and gaining pounds, check out the Auberge À la Gloire du Matin (Morning Glory Inn) — a cozy four-star B&B that deserves five. The hosts are friendly and wonderful (even when you accidentally set a pillow on fire), the rooms are adorable, and the food is out of this world. Impossibly good. Unearthly good. The inn is eco-friendly and socially-conscious too — the coffee is fair trade and nearly all the food is grown, raised or produced in the region. For our six-course dinner Saturday night, we had quail. And duck. And deer. And the generous portions ensure that you’re stuffed to the gills before you roll away from the table to the bonfire out front or the pool out back.

Oh, and no, I didn’t trade a glowing review for a discount on the room.

Yes, the place really is that good.

And yes, we really did accidentally set a pillow on fire.

(Incidentally, if you haven’t seen it, the music video for Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven is a Place on Earth” features a half dozen or so masked oompa-loompas trotting around with inflatable globes. Creepy.)

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