More than a few months back while planning this voyage to Canada, Merry Jo remarked that while in Newfoundland there existed a possibility to visit France…..say what? Seems that off the west coast of Newfoundland there are the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, which are a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France—so says Wikipedia. In common parlance, although you are in Canada, you can take a one-and-a-half-hour ferry ride and find yourself in a place where the primary language is French, the euro is the main currency and, in our case, where the food was fantastic. More on that later…. As a side note, for those of you really paying attention, you'll note that this blog entry is from France....it is, but the physical location is in North America...well, we
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